Weird Game: My Talent is a Bit Strong

"I must visit Grandpa's house for a meal when I have the chance in the future."

The four Shanghai investigators quickly left the hotel.

Before leaving, Shen Lianxin stood with her hands behind her back and didn't forget to say something to Fan Chen.

"I understand, sir," Fan Chen assured him, a little sweaty.

"Next time you come, I'll show you around Shanghai properly," said Wang Baoshan, dressed in a pink King Kong costume. "Shanghai has quite a few haunted places."

"Definitely, definitely..." Fan Chen continued, sweating profusely.

Is this place some kind of famous tourist attraction?

At this moment, Wang Baoshan was carrying the soundly sleeping Kong Shao on her shoulder—there was no way she could wake him up for the time being.

As the group walked out of the room, Qiu Yun suddenly moved closer to Fan Chen.

"Brother Fan, how long are you planning to keep those people locked up?" he asked.

Fan Chen was stunned for a moment. Who was this person... Holy crap!

Only then did he think of Li Qinghe and other players from the Extreme Shadow Guild.

After having them locked up, I entered the nightmare world and busied myself with it, successfully forgetting about the incident.

Fan Chen broke out in a cold sweat, trying his best to remain calm, and said, "Well, it seems they have nothing to do with the mysterious organization. Please release them, Brother Qiu."

"I'll make the arrangements right away." Qiu Yun smiled and didn't say anything more.

Four investigators, each with a distinct appearance, departed.

Fan Chen saw them brush past several hotel staff members in the corridor.

The waiters, however, did not show any surprise.

Clearly, they have protective measures in place to conceal their special status from ordinary pedestrians.

……

Zhang Miaomiao's funeral officially concluded today.

After Zhou Muchen returned and met up with them in the afternoon, he immediately set off back to Qingshan City.

Their attention then turned to the Tiantong Building instance, which was scheduled to open in four days.

This is not a brand new instance; it's an old instance that has been opened more than a dozen times.

There's plenty of information about the dungeon on the forums, but you'll need to spend in-game currency to buy it.

Fan Chen has been busy these past two days, having purchased a considerable amount of relevant intelligence.

I have gained some understanding of this instance.

First, Fan Chen had already determined that the Tiantong Building was related to the evil god "No Joy or Sorrow".

The most distinctive feature of believers who believe in the absence of joy and sorrow is that they wear masks.

The essence of being devoid of joy and sorrow is nothing more than a bizarre and grotesque mask.

Its followers are often referred to as masked believers.

Tiantong Building is a fifteen-story office building.

The background story of the dungeon has been thoroughly explored by players.

The thirteenth floor of Tiantong Building once belonged to a company called Shengxian Group.

The company's boss is seriously ill and doesn't have long to live.

In despair, one chooses to worship an evil god, which is to be without joy or sorrow.

He not only believed it himself, but also got his company employees to believe it too.

Then one day, hundreds of employees of the company suddenly and inexplicably died inside the building.

Since then, strange events have been occurring frequently in the Tiantong Building.

The employees of the other companies in the building gradually lost their joy and sorrow, and their expressions became stiff.

It was as if everyone was wearing a strange mask.

Their successive unexpected deaths quickly turned Tiantong Building into a ghost town.

Those who died inside the building all turned into ghosts wearing eerie masks.

These ghosts are called masked ghosts.

After entering the instance, players need to choose their job first.

This includes joining the building's security department and becoming a security guard.

There's also a gym on the first floor, a law firm on the second, a financial company on the third, and so on.

Every company has its own rules and its own dangers.

Players need to enter these companies and survive for five hours to complete the game.

Every fifty minutes, a ten-minute Red Moon period will begin.

During the Red Moon, employees of the player's company will transform into masked ghosts and hunt down the player.

There are even more terrifying masked killers who appear randomly.

Fan Chen was able to find walkthrough guides for several of these companies on the forum.

Once players have this information and join these companies, they can more easily and safely complete the five-hour survival objective.

The thirteenth floor is the most eerie place in the Tiantong Building.

This is a restricted area inside the building; neither the stairs nor the elevators can directly access this floor.

However, some players have found a way to enter the thirteenth floor.

However, without exception, none of the players who entered this floor were able to leave, and none of them brought back any relevant information.

Since Fan Chen is going into this instance, he is definitely aiming for a perfect clear.

The hidden mission in Tiantong Building is clearly related to the eerie thirteenth floor.

The method of getting to the thirteenth floor is naturally very important.

Fan Chen purchased several intelligence reports, but none of them contained a method to enter the thirteenth floor.

So Fan Chen directly issued a reward for the relevant information.

He didn't value the information about the instance too much, but since it could save him a lot of trouble in advance, why not?

……

In the evening, Fan Chen and his group returned to Qingshan City.

After finding a place to have dinner, Fan Chen and Zhou Muchen returned to their residence.

"Brother Chen, I want to go online and take a look," Zhou Muchen said in a deep voice, and went into his room.

He hasn't gone online for the past three days, seemingly because he doesn't want to face the female ghost that Zhang Miaomiao has transformed into.

Fan Chen could understand his feelings. When he first made a contract with He Xiaoqi, he only regarded her as a female ghost who retained Zhang Miaomiao's memories.

Zhang Miaomiao herself has passed away.

But after learning that the supernatural can descend into reality, and that the supernatural world is not just a game.

He realized that He Xiaoqi, whom he had contracted, was Zhang Miaomiao, who had become a ghost after death.

This left him with mixed feelings, unsure of how to face the other person.

The funeral of Zhang Miaomiao has ended, and she has bid farewell to her life in the real world.

Zhou Muchen was finally ready to face it.

Lying in bed, with the gaming device on his head, Zhou Muchen closed his eyes.

He appeared in his personal space, in front of which was a rather large mansion.

The Zhou Family Mansion—this was formerly the Huo Family Mansion. Zhou Muchen spent a lot of effort and ghost money to decorate it.

He walked to the front of the mansion with a strange feeling.

With a creak, the vermilion gate opened by itself, revealing He Xiaoqi dressed in a blood-red wedding gown.

The female ghost who has made a vow with Zhou Muchen will remain in the building in his personal space after he logs off.

After He Xiaoqi woke up, she appeared in the mansion and has been with Qing Tong for the past few days.

They seemed to get along fairly well, and Qinghe even deliberately chose not to appear at this moment.

"Miao Miao..." Zhou Muchen looked at the female ghost in front of him and spoke with a complicated expression.

The female ghost retained Zhang Miaomiao's appearance, but also incorporated some of He Xiaoqi's characteristics.

"Call me Aqi, that's my name now," He Xiaoqi said softly.

Its eyes burned as it looked at Zhou Muchen: "I've waited for you for so long, and you've finally come to see me."

"I've been busy attending your funeral in the real world..."

That sounds a bit strange.

He Xiaoqi tilted her head, a look of confusion on her face.

Unable to comprehend the concepts of the real world, its consciousness also became clouded after it became a female ghost.

But it retained Zhang Miaomiao's memories, and a trace of sadness quickly flashed across its expression.

"Can you tell me about the funeral?" it said with a smile.

"Great, lots of your fans came to see you off..."

Zhou Muchen took He Xiaoqi's hand and walked into the newly decorated mansion, saying with a smile.

This is a good start, he thought to himself with a smile.

Isn't this topic a bit too morbid?

In the real world, in Fan Chen's bedroom.

After putting the Snow-Slaying Blade back in its box, Fan Chen lay on the bed, picked up his laptop, and logged into the Weird Players Forum.

As soon as he entered the forum, he received a notification from the forum.

This comes from a player with the ID "简心云".

"I have the most detailed information about the Tiantong Building, including how to get to the thirteenth floor."

This is because they saw Fan Chen's intelligence bounty and contacted him.

Fan Chen sent a message: "Then we can make a deal. Let the forum notarize it. Once the information is confirmed to be correct, I'll give you the reward money."

Forum notarization is a feature of the Weird Players Forum, which ensures that information can be traded smoothly.

Jian Xinyun quickly replied to the message: "I don't need ghost money, but I hope you will grant me one request."

Fan Chen asked curiously, "You're also entering this instance, and you want us to protect you?"

Half a minute later, Jian Xinyun sent back a message, which was quite long.

"No, I will not enter this instance."

I think what you promised me was that once you went in, you would help me find someone, at least to find out if he was alive or dead.

He is my father. Half a year ago, after entering the Tiantong Building instance, he entered the thirteenth floor, and then he became a vegetable in the real world.

I heard that under these circumstances, he is very likely not completely dead, but just trapped on the thirteenth floor.

I entered the bizarre world game, became a player, and have been striving to get to where I am now.

I wanted to be able to enter the Tiantong Building to find him someday, but I haven't been able to randomly get this instance yet.

I know you will definitely go to the thirteenth floor of Tiantong Building.

So I beg you to help me; I will tell you all the information I have gathered.