Chapter 1 Finally Arrived

Finally arrived.

Li Ang slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, listening to what followed.

[Mission trigger conditions have been met]

[Mission type: Script Mission (???)]

[Mission name: The Long Night Is Coming]

[Mission objective: Be in a dark, enclosed room at 12:00 noon today, and wait for the next mission prompt]

[Mission reward: To be announced upon receiving the next mission prompt]

[Failure penalty: To be announced upon receiving the next mission prompt]

The Long Night Is Coming?

Li Ang's heart jolted. The name of a single mission didn't reveal much. The biggest question mark about this script mission was the series of question marks at the end.

In past experience, script missions have been of various types, such as single-player, team, team arena, etc., but there has never been a case where the suffix was a question mark.

What does it mean? Even the system doesn't know the classification of this mission?

Or is it that the flexibility of this mission is very high, and the specific form it will take depends on the player's own actions?

Li Ang frowned and pondered for a while, then walked out of the alchemy workshop and came to the computer desk. He searched the player forum but found nothing.

"Strange..."

He narrowed his eyes and leaned back. "There are no related records on the player forum.

So, was it generated with the game update?"

"What's wrong?"

Chai Chai, who floated into the bedroom, saw Li Ang frowning and thinking, and asked with a tilt of her head.

Li Ang casually explained the current situation, adding, "The unknown is the most annoying. Any other mission format would be fine, but this one with a string of question marks as a suffix...

I also can't buy equipment and props specifically for the mission format to strengthen myself."

"The Long Night Is Coming..."

Chai Chai thought for a while, "Do you think this script mission will take place in the Door World? It just so happens that the version has been updated, the Star Gate has opened, and the game throws a bunch of players into an unfamiliar Door World.

Since it can't guess whether the players will cooperate or compete, it doesn't set a mission format, allowing everyone to play freely.

As for the mission name 'The Long Night Is Coming'...

The closest thing to that name is those demons we encountered in the Lost World, right?"

"Hmm?"

Li Ang raised an eyebrow. The demons encountered in the Lost World came from a dark world full of terrifying Mandragora plants.

Even extraordinary creatures as strong as the Short-Faced, the Wild Lion, and Dan Chenzi had to cower in cities like isolated islands.

That kind of world does have the ability to pose a life threat to players of Li Ang's level.

"That's possible."

Li Ang nodded. "But this is talking about 'The Long Night Is Coming', and the eternal night of the Mandragora world seems to have lasted for hundreds of years, right? The timing doesn't match."

"Hmm..."

Chai Chai rubbed her temples in distress. "Ugh... so annoying."

Li Ang looked up at the clock on the wall. "It's still early morning, and there are ten hours until noon.

You don't have to go on this script mission. Stay in the real world and wait for me to come back."

Although Chai Chai is cultivating the *Ji Du An Chi Jiu You Yin*, which is on the same level as psychic abilities, she has only just started, and her strength is far from being able to catch up with Li Ang.

If this script mission really poses a life threat to Li Ang and players of his level, then Chai Chai's presence might not be of much use.

"Okay."

Chai Chai, who was left to guard the house again, was unhappy. She thought for a while and said, "After you come back, I want to take the Zerg Swarm to Southeast Asia."

"Hmm? What are you going to do in Southeast Asia?"

"Collect fear emotions."

Chai Chai simply said, "I just tested it. During the expansion of the Zerg Swarm, I used the psionic network of the Zerg units to intimidate ordinary people.

Whether it's directly distorting their minds with psionic power or remotely constructing my image with psionic power,

I can scare them, but the cultivation progress of *Ji Du An Chi Jiu You Yin* still hasn't increased.

In other words, to cultivate the *Ji Du An Chi Jiu You Yin*, I might have to be on-site."

Chai Chai rubbed her drooping hair and said, "According to the information sent back by the first-line scout Zerglings, many of the Special Affairs Bureau's overseas bases have shrunk in size, and they are paying less and less attention to the outside world.

Maybe I can take the Zerg Swarm, quickly raid a backward, remote village in Southeast Asia, reveal my true form, collect fear, and then have the Zerg units brainwash those people, erase their memories, and finally bring the Zerg Swarm back."

"Is that so..."

Li Ang frowned and thought for a while. "Okay, then go prepare."

Plans never keep up with changes. According to Li Ang's original idea, he was going to find Mule and hire some "volunteers" through secret channels.

Many large pharmaceutical companies in the real world, such as Gen-Sys Biotech, recruit many healthy or sick volunteers in the name of drug experiments, issue clinical drugs, and observe their changes.

In order to circumvent various Western laws and moral judgments, and to reduce the economic cost of recruiting volunteers, these medical experiment bases are usually built in backward and remote areas of Africa, India, etc.

Gen-Sys Biotech's drug research and development is rapid, and the controversies arising from the experiments are also increasing. Scandals of serial medical deaths in a certain experimental base are frequently exposed.

However, these negative news have rarely appeared recently—Gen-Sys Biotech has merged with the European Heavy Industries Group and has become a behemoth that can do whatever it wants in some small countries, comparable to the Umbrella Corporation.

This type of news is nipped in the bud and erased and covered up.

Sometimes, even if these shocking cases are exposed, these large companies will take appropriate exposure of celebrity scandals to divert public attention - the seemingly high and mighty celebrities are just pets kept by these large companies.

Gen-Sys has no shortage of experimental subjects (usually poor civilians from South Asia, Southeast Asia, South America, etc. who value money more than life) who are willing to do anything for money.

Li Ang can spend money to hire a group, create a haunted house space artificially, let Chai Chai intimidate and collect fear emotions, and then brainwash and release these experimental subjects.

The whole process takes place outside the Special Affairs Bureau's sight, leaving no hidden dangers or casualties.

But now Mule himself has encountered some trouble, and having Li Ang hide his identity to find Gen-Sys Biotech might add extra trouble.

Under the threat of the Star Gate, it is better to let Chai Chai directly lead the Zerg Swarm to act covertly and collect fear emotions—this is more efficient.

After making all the decisions, Li Ang logged into the game square again, urgently purchased some different types of potions, and issued the lower-level psychic ability cultivation methods to the Zerg Swarm.

With everything prepared, he quietly waited for the mission deadline to arrive.

As the second hand returned to zero, the familiar sense of teleportation swept through his body.

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At the same time, at the Special Affairs Bureau headquarters building, in the Meme Propagation Department.

Buzz——

In the large, closed laboratory, red warning lights came on, and a piercing siren echoed.

Researchers wearing heavy, fully enclosed leaded protective suits hurriedly pressed buttons on the operating platform, adjusted parameters, and shouted into the microphone: "Comrade Bai, can you hear me?"

"Cough cough!"

In the sealed metal room in front of the laboratory, Bai Haozheng, an intelligence analyst from the Special Affairs Bureau, suddenly woke up from the operating bed, ripped off the metal helmet connected to the STEM consciousness synchronization system (based on the esper Kido Yukari), and coughed, saying, "The murderer in that series of murder cases, I saw him."