Chapter 1 The Ghost with Hidden Eyes Opens His Eyes

At this moment, he was standing on a stone arch bridge spanning a river.

The stone bridge was long and wide, its structure stable and sturdy. Leaning against the stone railings on either side, he could see the slow-flowing river below and, looking up, the clear, moonlit starry sky.

The two ends of the stone bridge connected to the riverbanks, where some willow trees seemed to be planted, vaguely shrouded in a thin mist.

The Ghost with Hidden Eyes was already familiar with the surrounding scenery: the night, the moon, the stone bridge, the river, the mist.

He had received the same [Please Sleep] note for three consecutive days. After sleeping according to the instructions tonight, he appeared on the stone bridge for the third time.

Only this time, something seemed different.

The fog had thinned a lot.

The Ghost with Hidden Eyes looked around, feeling suspicious.

According to previous experience, a blurry, umbrella-holding figure should be standing not far in front of the stone arch bridge, turning at different angles every other night, as if about to turn back and meet the Ghost with Hidden Eyes’ gaze.

But now, there was nothing there.

"What's going on..."

The Ghost with Hidden Eyes muttered to himself, feeling uneasy.

The next second, he sensed something and his face showed astonishment.

For the previous two nights, he couldn't use his player's special abilities. He couldn't take items from his inventory, and his physical fitness had deteriorated to that of an ordinary mortal.

But now, he could clearly hear the pounding of his strong heart, and he could feel the surging power in his body.

He subconsciously opened the player panel, and the personal information on the panel had not turned black. The item bar, skill bar, etc., were also glowing.

The restriction was lifted?!

The Ghost with Hidden Eyes' breathing stagnated, his eyes wide. He couldn't wait to take out various equipment and props from his inventory, arming himself to the teeth.

He also placed many props or magic circles around him to detect malice and energy fluctuations.

Just as Bai Haozheng had speculated, the Ghost with Hidden Eyes and Hei Sheng Zi both came from South Korea. The former was the latter's bodyguard, subordinate, and believer.

They belonged to an organization called "Other Shore," which was closely related to Tanhua. It was established before the official start of the killing game and had penetrated every corner of South Korean society.

The organization had clear levels. The lower level was responsible for the dirty private work in the black zone.

The middle level used the huge cash flow provided by the lower level to launder money and go ashore, opening media companies, purchasing factories, and operating nightclubs and bars. On the one hand, they concealed their activities and laundered money; on the other hand, they provided strongholds for the downstream industries, accommodating dirt and filth.

As for the upper level, they used Hei Sheng Zi's mother's identity as a shaman, whose divination was effective and could help people turn bad luck into good, and a large amount of laundered money to establish a network of relationships in the upper class, providing protection for the middle and lower industries.

Although "Other Shore" was not as well-known as Tanhua,

Nor did it have its own territory, mercenaries, and transcendent army like the Seven Warlords of the Sea in Brazil.

But it had been lurking for a long enough time and was deeply entangled with the local upper class. The dirt it held in its hands was enough to subvert the local structure.

Even the Global Supernatural Alliance, which possessed the highest authority and official status, or the newly appointed local chief, could not take action to eliminate the Other Shore organization.

As time passed, the Other Shore organization had moved beyond the low-level stage of collecting money and began ambitiously recruiting soldiers and buying horses.

It wanted to emulate America's Prometheus Laboratory Company and grow into a large organization spanning multiple industries, possessing cutting-edge technology, and even armed forces.

As the young master of Other Shore, Hei Sheng Zi naturally enjoyed countless preferential treatments.

According to past practice, when he was performing script missions, he should have been equipped with multiple bodyguards to protect Hei Sheng Zi's life at all costs.

However, before that,

A rebellion occurred in the Other Shore organization.

Some special agents refused to carry out the order from the Other Shore executives to eliminate the experimental products (test-tube babies that quickly developed into children, with an apparent age of 7-8 years old, and were born with supernatural powers such as telekinesis) produced in the gene mutation project.

Therefore, they were targeted for liquidation and extermination by the Other Shore organization.

Those agents fought back and killed the armed personnel sent by Other Shore, and fled the deserted island where the experimental base was located with the surviving experimental children, whereabouts unknown.

A month later, these agents began assassinating the executives of the Other Shore organization, and Hei Sheng Zi was also on the assassination list.

At that time, he was taking a private plane from America to London, representing the Other Shore organization to negotiate with the local underground forces in London to discuss forming an alliance in the Doorway battle.

As a result, the private plane was attacked by missiles over the Atlantic Ocean before it even reached London.

Although Hei Sheng Zi and a group of guards on the plane were all transcendents, there was still some gap between their reaction speed and that of the missiles.

Moreover, the other party also used some special props that could temporarily seal transcendent powers.

Hei Sheng Zi and others could only watch as the plane was hit by a missile and crashed.

Hei Sheng Zi and the Ghost with Hidden Eyes survived by luck with their transcendent powers, but the pilot, attendants, and a group of Other Shore guards on the plane were not so lucky.

Either they were swallowed by the explosion and died on the spot,

Or they escaped the plane, but they did not have any equipment or props to solve the problem of falling. They could only free-fall thousands of meters and smash into meat paste on the sea with a "pop."

(Players caught in battle cannot directly teleport into the game mall in the real world to take refuge, they must wait for a period of time after leaving the battle)

Hei Sheng Zi and the Ghost with Hidden Eyes, who had fallen into the sea, were quickly hunted down again by the escaped agents—the agents, who were also players, were very clear about the capabilities of these two people, and weakened and tortured them with long-range attacks from a distance.

The two struggled to escape at sea, and finally managed to reach the waters of Great Britain with the extravagant use of expensive props, and ushered in support.

Before the angry Hei Sheng Zi could return to Other Shore to start a liquidation, he and the Ghost with Hidden Eyes received a script mission notification.

The master and servant came to the Dolphin Hotel in this way, without bringing more manpower—the guards who had previously applied to team up with them had all died in the assassination attack.

However, the Ghost with Hidden Eyes had enough firm belief to survive in this terrifying and bizarre Dolphin Hotel—his young master, Hei Sheng Zi, was the hope of Other Shore, the future of mankind, even if he fell into hell and could never be freed, he would protect his young master.

"Now that the restriction on transcendent power has been lifted, then tonight, it's time to enter the battle stage..."

The Ghost with Hidden Eyes muttered to himself, and his whole body burst out with crackling sounds.

Bones grew, muscles expanded.

The already tall and burly physique of the Ghost with Hidden Eyes further swelled, nearly three meters tall, with double horns on his head, skin as red as blood, and cyan blood vessels all over his body, clearly visible.

His whole body exuded black baleful energy, like a demon in legends, tyrannical and fierce.

Zheng—

A giant naginata was tightly held in his hand, and he slammed it hard on the ground.

The ninety-centimeter blade was gleaming with cold light, and the blade contained a narrow blood groove.

The three-meter-tall hardwood handle was even taller than the demon-like Ghost with Hidden Eyes.

He wanted to see what kind of existence the umbrella-holding figure who had tormented him for two nights was.

Da, da, da.

The crisp and sweet sound of wooden clogs rang out at the end of the stone bridge, approaching from far away, very rhythmic.

The pupils of the Ghost with Hidden Eyes shrank sharply. He clearly saw a figure holding an umbrella, walking towards him in wooden clogs.

The cold wind blew, the willow branches on both sides swayed, and the sound of bubbles rising in the river sounded.

A large number of fish floated to the surface of the water, their bellies up, no longer moving, already dead.

It was as if the umbrella-holding figure walking in wooden clogs was a bringer of death...