Doomsday Train, I went crazy by hoarding billions of items.

Chapter 185 The Strange Invitation
Jiang Ran woke up at 1 p.m. the next day.

She rubbed her head, feeling as if she had dreamt of something extraordinary yesterday, but upon closer reflection, she couldn't quite make sense of it.

After going downstairs, Majik and Xiaobai were staring at each other in the living room.

She was somewhat puzzled: "Are you playing statues here?"

Seeing that Jiang Ran was awake, Xiao Bai's tense expression instantly relaxed: "Master, you're awake. Are you hungry? I've made you some food."

Jiang Ran nodded casually; now that she thought about it, she was actually quite hungry.

Majik, standing to the side, simply watched her eat quietly without saying a word.

Jiang Ran asked, puzzled, "What happened to you? Why do you look so down?"

Majik shook his head: "There seems to be some new development outside. Take a look at the chat lobby."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Ran opened the chat interface.

He mumbled incoherently, "I knew things wouldn't end so easily! Don't wander around these next few days; there are strange things happening everywhere. If you're unlucky enough to encounter something, you might be done for."

Big front teeth: "You guys encountered it too? When I went out to find supplies, I was dragged into that weird place. I was almost scared to death."

Real Du and Fake Du: "Wait, buddy, how did you get back?"

Big front teeth: "It's a long story. I was taken to a strange village where every household had made a huge pile of paper figures. Those paper figures were terrifying to look at, and my legs went weak. But then a voice told me that I had to enter the village before sunset, or something even more terrible would happen."

Ah, right, right: "Damn, you're already scared, so you went into the village?"

Big front teeth: "How could I! Would you dare go in if I gave it to you? I'm afraid those paper figures in the village will come back to life if I go in! But if I don't go in, I'm afraid the game will just kill me with code, so I stuck at the edge of the village and went into the village's area."

He mumbled incoherently, "Using that terrain trick, are you a genius?"

Big front teeth: "I don't know if I'm a genius or not, but after the sun sets, the whole village outside... it's like it was swallowed up in one gulp! It just suddenly disappeared, can you understand?"

"Then, those paper figures in the village started crawling on the rooftops shouting for me to hurry into the village because it was dangerous outside. Did they really think they looked safe?"

Right now, almost everyone is listening to Big Tooth tell his unique story.

Seeing that he hadn't spoken for a while, someone couldn't help but urge him, "And then? How exactly did you escape?"

Big front teeth: "And then? Then I burned the village down... I have a skill that lets me throw big fireballs, and I didn't dare get close to the village, so I just stayed at the edge and threw a bunch of fireballs into the village."

As soon as these words were spoken, all the new messages below changed to "6".

Some people are also wondering, is this how they can escape?
But Big Tooth said, "How is that possible! I don't know how those paper figures were made. I thought that once they were burned, everything would be fine, but I didn't expect that no matter how many I burned, they would reappear the next day at dawn."

"Goodness, my skills also require stamina to unleash. Later on, I ran out of stamina and didn't have any fireballs to burn those paper figures. But then I thought, the paper figures can't just appear out of thin air, right? So I went all out and rushed into the village's ancestral hall, and burned all the memorial tablets inside."

Jiang Ran was also somewhat speechless upon seeing this.

It has to be said that Big Teeth was quite lucky. Those paper figures probably never expected that the person randomly shaken in would possess a skill that countered theirs. Jiang Ran didn't know for a moment whether this could be considered one of Blue Star's gifts.

This was the first time his front teeth had attracted so much attention, and he couldn't help but adopt a storyteller's tone, even trying to keep people in suspense.

Finally, after being tagged by a bunch of people, he said helplessly, "Do you believe me if I say I don't even know how I got out?"

Seeing a bunch of people booing him, and some even suspecting he was making up a story, Big Teeth got angry: "Why would I make up something like this! There will definitely be other people dragged into this hellhole, you'll see."

"Although I really don't remember how I got out, I swear I'm not lying! When I woke up, I was lying at my doorstep. If I hadn't failed to use the teleportation item card before, which caused me to lose the only card I had left, I would have suspected that I was dreaming."

"But when I woke up, I found that I had something extra in my hand. [Image]"

Jiang Ran clicked on the image and found it to be a rather formal invitation, with a bright red cover, a black frame in the middle, and the words "Sincere Invitation" written in gold ink.

Big front tooth: "God knows I've thrown this thing away, burned it, and cut it to pieces, but nothing worked!! All I wrote was a sincere invitation, nothing more. If anyone questions what I'm saying, give me an email address, and I'll send it to you and see?"

At first glance, the invitation seemed unremarkable, but upon closer inspection, one could see that the gold patterns on the red cover looked like various distorted and bizarre eyeballs.

Jiang Ran's alarm bells rang loudly, and she strongly suspected that this was a new trick devised by Big Eyes.

Ultimately, it's an attempt to extract more emotional responses from players.

But she didn't have a better solution for the time being, so she simply used the contact information Muya had left to ask directly: "Do you know what's going on with that invitation?"

Muya did not reply.

In those few short minutes, many more players appeared in the chat lobby saying they had unintentionally received invitations.

Strangely enough, they all said that they were unintentionally pulled into a strange place, but there seemed to be no danger. They went in inexplicably and came out inexplicably.

The only thing they had in common was that they each had an extra invitation letter.

It looks like an admission ticket for some kind of sinister ritual.

Seeing Jiang Ran's thoughtful expression, Majik said softly, "May I go out for a bit?"

Seeing Jiang Ran looking at him with a puzzled expression, Majik gave a wry smile: "Perhaps I'll be pulled in too, and then I can also investigate what this invitation is all about."

Jiang Ran lowered her eyes, neither agreeing nor refusing, but said calmly, "No rush, let's see what our Holy Maiden left me first."

She took out the small box that Muya had given her earlier, and unsurprisingly, it contained the remaining map fragments.

These fragments covered all four corners of the game map, and then several new coordinates lit up.

Xiao Bai and Jiang Ran share the same map, so he can also see the newly lit coordinates.

He asked softly, "Master, shall we go and check these coordinates first?"

Jiang Ran was about to speak when her eyes narrowed—the coordinates that had initially given her direct access to Paro Island suddenly changed from gray to usable!