Warning! The evil god's minions are invading the eerie dungeon.

Congratulations on clearing the "Annie's Family Inn" dungeon!

Your completion rating is - Special X (Perfect completion, resulting in the permanent closure of the instance)

[Loot Calculation: Beginner-level Mysterious Entities x6, Restricted-level Mysterious Entities x2, Antique Desk x1, Antique Office Chair x1, Human Skin Ledger x1, Infected Mysterious Floor Tiles x...]

[Bonus Reward for Completing the Level: 800 Weird Points]

A faint, unreal voice echoed in my ears.

Qi Xie opened his eyes and was greeted by a snow-white ceiling that was free of any peeling paint.

"Back at the budget hotel."

Qi Xie got up and went to the French windows. Looking out, the city was not dark at night. The streets were still bustling with traffic, and the colorful neon lights brought a sense of human warmth.

"It's so nice to come back from a dungeon and not end up lying next to some ancient tomb or something... That's more like life."

Qi Xie took a deep breath, but then smelled a foul, bloody odor.

That was the smell of his dried, dirty blood.

He remembered something, turned around and saw that the pure white sheets on the bed were indeed stained with his blood.

"Take a shower."

Qi Xie picked up the landline on the bedside table and made a call, asking the front desk to send someone up to change the dirty sheets. Then, he left the door open, took a set of clean clothes, and went into the bathroom.

I took a shower, changed into clean clothes, came out to check that the sheets had been changed and the cleaning lady had left, then locked the door and went back into the bathroom.

A series of muttered words of hunger had been echoing in his ears, urging him on.

Qi Xie chose the bathroom as the summoning location because it is spacious, has a shower, and makes it easy to clean up traces.

Squatting down, Qi Xie brought his right index and middle fingers together and smeared them on the ground, the blood that squeezed out from his fingertips forming a crimson line.

"Great Lord."

With skillful finger movements, he drew a framework composed of complex and mysterious lines and rings, as well as nine menacing tentacles inside, followed by shadows, and finally drew the blood-red vertical eye in the center.

I praise you!

"The supreme ruler of all shadows, the unfathomable blood-eyed god, the chaotic touch that entangles the world. Descending in the absence of light, watching from the shadows, extending tentacles from the darkness."

"Your devout family beseeches your gaze!"

Sizzle sizzle sizzle...

Suddenly, the lights emitted an unstable electrical sound and began to flicker wildly.

This phenomenon is not limited to the bathroom or this room, but occurs throughout the entire hotel's lighting.

boom! ! !

The bathroom light suddenly shattered, plunging the entire bathroom into darkness, leaving only Qi Xie with a dark expression in the shadows. He also heard the living room light seem to have exploded as well.

Now he has to pay for the hotel's lights!

Couldn't this evil god just be a little more accommodating?! So pampered! He only descends when there's darkness, so he creates darkness if there isn't!

What a brat! He doesn't know the value of money until he's in charge of the household!

The surrounding air gradually turned cold and damp, making one feel as if they had fallen into an ice cave.

Grayish-white, illusory tentacles slowly emerged from the eerie pattern, their blood-red vertical eyes, glowing red at the ends, swirling restlessly as they surveyed their surroundings.

Qi Xie frowned slightly.

He wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but he felt that there was a hint of clarity in those blood-red vertical eyes, as if a glimmer of reason had appeared within them.

"This thing is definitely reviving."

Qi Xie confirmed his guess in his heart.

The blood-red vertical eye glanced around, finally settling on Qi Xie, and uttered a murmured phrase:

"Hungry......"

After a pause, it added:

"three times......"

"Okay, okay, I know."

Qi Xie snapped his fingers, and the shadow beneath his feet slowly opened its blood-red vertical eyes.

The sinister tentacles eagerly reached into the shadows, plunging directly into the bottomless darkness.

It doesn't need Qi Xie's consent, nor does it need to take out anything from it. It can devour anything simply by touching it. After all, darkness and shadow are part of its name and are under its control. As long as it touches Qi Xie's shadow, it can invade it on its own.

The evil god was having a meal, and Qi Xie, having nothing better to do, sat on the toilet next to him and raised his hand to summon a phantom transparent panel.

Name: Qi Xie

Certification Level: ???

[Strange Skills: Flesh Reforging (Rank B) / Stealth Vision (Rank D)]

[Possession of sealed items: Eye Ring (Level 3) / Blood Axe of the Dismemberer (Level 3) / Human Skin Handkerchief (Level 4)]

[Possesses a strange characteristic]: 3000

[Time remaining until next dungeon matchmaking: 7 days]

Qi Xie frowned slightly as he looked at the three question marks following the certification level.

Through information found on chat forums, Qi Xie learned that almost everyone would obtain the "Beginner Walker" certification after one or two bizarre dungeons.

This thing is also categorized into 'Intermediate', 'Advanced', 'Top', and 'Ultimate' levels.

Qi Xie has already cleared the bizarre dungeon twice, once on beginner level and once on restricted level, and each time he cleared it perfectly with a special X-level rating.

However, his certification level is still '???'.

The certification levels are entirely determined by the [Traveler System] itself, seemingly serving as a standard for a Traveler's overall strength or proof of having cleared certain dungeon levels.

However, perhaps because he is a follower of an evil god, the [Wanderer System] cannot fully probe his body or soul, which is why he has been unable to obtain a certification level.

This gave Qi Xie a strange idea—what exactly is the [Wanderer System]? Where did it come from?

Judging from the fact that it cannot bypass the blessing of the evil god to know itself, the evil god's status may not be lower than its source.

Thinking of this, Qi Xie immediately logged into the system's chat forum module, hoping to find information about the system's origin.

However, to everyone's surprise, after searching for a long time, Qi Xie still found nothing.

There is absolutely no information about this, not a single trace.

Qi Xie pondered for a moment, then said softly:

"Is it blocked?"

The eerie dungeon has been here for quite some time now. The unknown and the deadly have made everyone fearful. It is the [Wanderer System] that has given humanity the power to fight against the eerie, making it like Noah's Ark that appeared during a sudden flood.

Qi Xie didn't believe that no one was investigating the true nature of the [Wanderer System].

Therefore, the only explanation is that some high-level force or organization has blocked this information and prevented ordinary people from discussing and exploring this matter.

"An entity similar to a system administrator? There is actually an entity that can influence the [Traveler System] and block such knowledge."

Qi Xie let out a breath, shook his head, and gave up on the idea of ​​investigating further.

Since they don't allow exploration, or perhaps they haven't reached the level where they're qualified, digging into the details will definitely not do any good. It's better to improve yourself first; some things will naturally become clear once you reach that level.

However, Qi Xie never expected that in just a short time, he would inadvertently come into contact with the so-called administrator and form a grudge against him.

To be precise, it was an evil god who caused them to become enemies.

At this moment, he was preparing to digest his gains and strengthen his abilities.