You made all the streamers on the internet kneel before you when you were asked to make a game.

Upon seeing this notification, Old E instantly understood what was going on.

He immediately opened the Nebula platform's player community and found Lu Zhixing and Kuangbao Longge's live stream rooms.

When he saw them trapped in the maze, Old E made a decision without hesitation.

at the same time.

Hao Ren looked at the data in the backend and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

Finally, someone has finished playing "The Caged Bird".

His finger tapped lightly on the virtual keyboard, and a system announcement was pushed to all players of "Reincarnation".

[Server-wide Announcement: To promote player cooperation and enhance the gaming experience, the "Cross-Dungeon Trading Channel" has been officially launched.]

[Rules: Players can spend 100 Ghost Coins as a processing fee to teleport a designated "key story item" to another player currently in the main world map.]

The announcement caused an uproar across the internet.

[Damn it! You "good guy," you deserve to die! You charge for this?!]

[I get it! All the instances set up by "Good Guy" are interconnected. "Caged Bird" isn't a side story at all; it's the official walkthrough for Seamist Town! "Good Guy" is just selling the walkthrough piecemeal!]

This is disgusting! The planner's heart is blacker than ink!

In the misty air of Haiwu Town, Lu Zhixing also saw the announcement and understood the plan's intentions almost instantly.

He immediately opened a private chat channel with Old E.

"Old E, this is Lu Zhixing. I need your help."

He replied almost instantly.

"Master, I saw it. I'll give you the props right away, and I'll pay for them!" Old E's reply was clean and efficient.

This sense of participation in navigating the main storyline across different instances was quite novel to Old E.

If the leader and his group really manage to clear the main world, I wonder if he'll get a share of the rewards for completing it.

next second.

An additional item appeared in Lu Zhixing's system inventory.

【Falsehood-Dispelling Lens (Fake)】

Before he could express his gratitude, Lu Zhixing immediately took out the broken ancient mirror.

The mirror felt cold to the touch, carrying a sense of age and wear.

He raised the mirror and pointed it at the wall in front of him, which seemed to be a dead end.

In the reflection of the mirror, the moss-covered stone wall disappeared, and a winding stone path, also covered in moss, appeared.

That road, hidden in the gaps of the thick fog, leads to a higher place.

"Found it!" Lu Zhixing's spirits lifted. "Follow me!"

Holding a mirror in one hand and the little water ghost girl in the other, he was the first to step onto the stone steps that could only be seen in the mirror.

Professor Chen and Brother Long followed closely behind.

With each step they took, it was as if they were walking on empty air, with churning black water and thick fog beneath their feet.

But as long as they follow the image in the mirror, their steps become incredibly firm.

The stone steps are not long, only about a hundred steps.

As they took the last step, the thick fog suddenly cleared up.

A three-story building, entirely black and exuding an ominous aura, appeared before them.

Outside the building, there were huge iron chains as thick as an arm wrapped around it, covered with talismans that had long since faded and turned yellow.

The building had no doors, only windows that were nailed shut with wooden planks and talismans.

The wood used for the building is a dark red ebony, as if it had been soaked in blood for a thousand years, and it emits a faint smell of blood.

This is Zhenhai Tower.

The source of all calamities in Seafog Town.

Standing beneath Zhenhai Tower, an ancient and eerie atmosphere enveloped me.

It was a deathly silence that seemed to devour all light and hope.

Unlike the noisy, ghostly atmosphere of the theater, the atmosphere here is a pure, solidified "resentment".

The resentment was so intense that it even formed a faint black force field visible to the naked eye around the building.

"It's so...so suffocating..."

Brother Long felt short of breath just standing outside the building.

The ghost bride's malevolent aura automatically activated, protecting him behind her as she emitted a series of low, warning growls at the dark building.

The little water ghost was so frightened that she buried her head in Lu Zhixing's arms, not daring to show it.

"Something's not right about this building."

Professor Chen walked around Zhenhai Tower, his expression growing increasingly grave.

He would sometimes squat down, grab a handful of soil from the ground, and sniff it lightly.

He would look up from time to time to observe the direction of the iron chains wrapped around the building and the way the talismans were drawn.

"Master, look at these talismans." Professor Chen pointed to the talisman papers that had long since faded and turned yellow.

"The painting technique is very ancient, using cinnabar mixed with black dog blood. It is indeed a Taoist orthodox talisman for warding off evil."

"But..." Professor Chen changed the subject, "Look at these chains, their direction is not for 'locking,' but for 'gathering.'"

"They draw out yin energy from deep within the earth, which coils around the building and eventually converges at the top floor."

"This isn't suppression, this is 'gathering spirits'!"

The more Professor Chen spoke, the drier his voice became.

He walked over to Lu Zhixing and they exchanged a glance. Both of them saw the terrifying suspicion in each other's eyes.

Finally, Professor Chen uttered his conclusion, word by word.

"This is not a tower for warding off evil spirits."

"This is a jar for 'raising poisonous insects'!"

"How cruel the Chen family ancestors were! They never even considered sealing the source of the tsunami!"

"They want to use the resentment and yin energy of the entire town to nurture an even more ferocious and evil 'gu'—a 'god' that can devour the 'Dragon King' in turn!"

This conclusion left Brother Long and tens of millions of viewers in the live stream completely stunned.

[Raising Gu poison? Using the entire town to do it?]

[That's ruthless! What kind of dark military strategy is this, using one tiger to devour another?]

[It's chilling to think about; what kind of monster is being kept in that building?]

Just then, a strange sound came from inside the building, and countless people were praying in hushed tones.

"...May the Dragon King bless me with a safe voyage, and may I return with a full catch this time..."

"...Let me become rich, I'm willing to trade my wife's life for it..."

"...Butcher Wang next door is richer than me. Let him die, let his whole family die..."

"...That Miss Chen is so beautiful. If I could play with her for one night, I'd be willing to shorten my lifespan by ten years..."

These voices are mostly filled with greed, malice, jealousy, and lust... a collection of the ugliest aspects of human nature.

They were like demonic sounds, frantically assaulting everyone's eardrums and reason.

Lu Zhixing's rationality was already at the warning line, and now it was plummeting even faster.

The world before his eyes began to turn red again.

Although the dark ink-colored silk robe that Professor Chen had taken off was no longer on his body, its negative effects had already penetrated deep into his soul.

At this moment, triggered by this endless malice, the illness relapsed instantly.

"We have to go in!" Lu Zhixing gritted his teeth, his eyes bloodshot.

If he stays outside any longer, he'll go crazy first.

However, this building has no door.

All the windows were nailed shut. Although the power of the talisman had weakened, it still existed and could not be easily destroyed.

"What to do? Smash it?" All Long Ge could think about was recklessness.

"No!" Professor Chen immediately stopped them. "Forcibly breaking the seal will trigger a backlash from all the talismans!"

Just when everyone was at a loss, Lu Zhixing took out the broken calligraphy brush from his backpack.

[Judge's Pen (incomplete)]

He has never been able to figure out how to use this pen, let alone the hidden job change.

But this pen seems to resonate with the "rules" in some way.

The building in front of us is itself composed of countless "rules".

"Since there's no door, I'll draw you one!"