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Chapter 96 The Opportunity to Control the Ghostly Phone Call (Nine Chapters, Seeking First Subscription!)
[This dungeon's competitive objective: The team that survives the longest wins.]

This shattered God Realm is a very peculiar existence, distributed across many different dimensions.

The opponent Lu Ming encountered this time most likely entered this instance from another dimension.

Lu Ming found it hard to believe that the teams were evenly matched.

After all, it's rare to see a team of three players daring to challenge a four-star difficulty level in a team arena dungeon.

"If all the teams encountered are controlled by the Main God Space, then in order to maintain balance, the Main God Space will likely implement a unique mechanism when searching for teams..."

"Similar to competitive games I've played before."

"The stronger you perform in the dungeon, the stronger the teams you will encounter later, and the harder it will be to win."

From this perspective, given Lu Ming's abilities, he could easily slack off and coast along. After all, he could control the situation, and as long as he made some adjustments at crucial moments, he could ensure that the final outcome was victory.

Similar to chicken feet style.

By lowering the main god's assessment of himself, he is matched with weaker opponents.

This playing style is very useful for reference.

But Lu Ming did not intend to adopt it.

Instead, he needs to maximize his performance score in the Main God Space to make his next challenger even stronger.

Because the final score for team-based competitive dungeons takes into account both the strength of the opponents and the performance of the team members.

In other words, only high-level matches would yield rewards that would be worth Lu Ming's attention.

Five semi-transparent figures appeared in the darkness to the side. It was obvious that these were their opponents. The panels in front of these five figures only displayed the most basic identity information: name and gender.

Lu Ming glanced at it casually and silently memorized it.

The feeling of weightlessness came without warning.

This was Lu Ming's third time entering the horror movie instance. Although the mode was different from the previous two times, the feeling of weightlessness when falling into the darkness was no different, and he was already used to it.

Just then, points of light appeared in the darkness.

The points of light quickly converged, forming lines of faintly glowing white characters.

The murder prophecy, which involved three consecutive ghostly phone calls, failed to materialize.

[Reward: Gain the ability to kill via missed phone calls]

"As expected, another extra task was triggered, and the reward is exactly what I wanted."

Lu Ming's heart stirred slightly, and he gave a somewhat stiff smile.

He chose [Ghost Call] largely because of the extra quests in this instance.

More accurately, it's for the extra rewards brought by extra tasks.

"Is the extra task to invalidate the murder prophecy of the ghostly phone call three times in a row...?"

In the "Ghost Call" instance, the vengeful ghost will notify the victim of the time and place of death by dialing their phone number and sending a text message, and will also play the deceased's last words.

As long as a call is received, regardless of whether the call is answered, the victim will definitely die in the manner and time predicted in the death prophecy.

What Lu Ming needs to do now is not just to survive.

He also wanted to slap the face of this vengeful ghost, making the curse of the ghost's call ineffective three times in a row.

After analyzing the situation, Lu Ming had a general plan in mind.

Completing extra tasks wouldn't be difficult for him. Surviving longer than other teams wouldn't be difficult either.

However, combining these two things may create some kind of conflict.

"If the ghostly call targets a member of another team, using supernatural rescue would be tantamount to helping the opponent. But if I don't rescue them, it will interrupt the progress of the death prophecy, and I'll have to start all over again..."

"Therefore, the best approach would be to first eliminate the five challengers from the other team, and then complete the additional task assigned by the main god."

If you voluntarily choose to enter a team-based competitive instance, you must be prepared to view the other teams as enemies.

Only one team will survive in the end.

To feel sorry for other teams in a dungeon is the greatest cruelty one can inflict on oneself.

As for the God's rule prohibiting challengers from killing each other, Lu Ming only felt it was hypocritical.

They've already introduced this kind of "it's either you or me" dungeon mode, so why are they still talking about prohibiting infighting?

The significance of this rule is, at most, to make the methods of killing less direct and more covert.

In other words, to eliminate your opponent, you have to create an accident and use someone else to do the dirty work.

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After an unknown amount of time, Lu Ming's feet were once again firmly planted on the ground, and the feeling of weightlessness finally disappeared.

He slowly opened his eyes and saw that he was in a hot pot restaurant. The restaurant was crowded, noisy and lively, and the rising steam spread in the air, blurring the faces of the people in the restaurant.

The atmosphere was ordinary and warm, but it also revealed a strange feeling, making people feel a chill down their spine, as if something unclean was hiding there.

Several people sat around a large hot pot table, including Lu Ming.

And there were several familiar faces beside them.

Gao Zheming, Jiang Zi, Chen Xin, Wu Lei.

The remaining group, consisting of both men and women, were not members of the other challenger team, but rather characters who were already present in the instance. They ate together and chatted idly.

"It seems that the other team entered the instance from a different starting point than us. We were caught up in the core event of the ghost call from the very beginning. I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing."

Lu Ming and the other members of the team exchanged glances, and no one spoke, but remained silent in a tacit manner.

None of the people in the team were newcomers; they knew that these were new identities bestowed upon them by the Main God Space.

In such situations, it's crucial to avoid rash actions and instead focus on quietly gathering information.

pat!

The gas stove on the dining table suddenly went out and couldn't be restarted no matter what it tried. The middle-aged man dressed like a corporate slave looked at Nakamura Yumi and said, "Yumi, could you please take a look at the gas stove and see what's wrong?"

The woman named Nakamura Yumi was about to agree on the spur of the moment, but then she paused for a moment and hesitated.

Her friend explained, "Yumi has a deep aversion to looking through pinholes because of some childhood experiences. Let me do it."

After the gas stove was relit, and as she recounted her story, everyone learned what had happened to Yumi Nakamura.

It turns out that Yumi's mother has serious mental health issues and has been abusing Yumi and her grandmother.

The scene of Yumi's grandmother hanging herself was seen by Yumi through a small hole in the wall.

She would never forget the scene of her loved one's cold body being hung from a straw rope and swayed from side to side.

Therefore, seeing through the pinhole became Nakamura Yumi's greatest fear.

At this point in the conversation, Jian Er, a middle-aged man wearing a hat, stubbed out his cigarette and casually asked, "Have you all encountered any particularly memorable terrifying events in your lives?"

(End of this chapter)