It's time to become an evil god.

Taking advantage of the moment when the monster was unable to move, ten fishhooks shot out from Bai Ge's fingertips, tying the swaying spine. Bai Ge grabbed a kitchen knife and rushed forward, slashing hard at the white spine of the old woman selling umbrellas.

With a snap, the fragile spine broke, and the monster's entire body collapsed limply.

The paper effigy released its hands, and its head, with its wide, cloudy eyes, arced through the air before landing silently on the ground with a thud, just like the two dead heads in the refrigerator.

Bai Ge picked up the head that was staring at him intently, its face contorted in a grimace, seemingly not quite dead yet.

He walked up to the machine, forcefully shoved most of its head inside, and then pressed the start button.

[Normal task completed]

[Players upgrade to LV2 and unlock the character's inventory]

The Mini Recovery Potion has been sent to your inventory. Please check.

"ended."

Bai Ge, having advanced to LV2, let out a breath. He stood up, wrapped the bodies of Zhang's father and daughter in his clothes, placed them on the table, and cleaned up any other traces at the scene. After that, Bai Ge stepped out of the old apartment building. After thinking for a moment, he sent a message to Xize Liang in the message bar.

[Yongfu Restaurant, Room 402, Bizarre Murder, Two Victims, Case Solved, Personnel Can Be Sent to Clean Up the Scene]

After sending the message, Bai Ge turned around and looked into the living room. In a flash, he seemed to see a father and daughter standing in the living room waving and thanking him.

Bai Ge turned around, unable to bear watching this scene any longer, and sighed silently.

"Life and death are unpredictable..."

Chapter Twenty: She's Just Too Big

Unlocking the inventory feature felt like opening up a whole new world. Bai Ge discovered that not only could acquired items go into the inventory, but even the ghosts in the warehouse could be stored there. This unlocked a whole new gameplay element. Theoretically, if there were no inventory restrictions, an entire armored army could fit inside.

Furthermore, once players reach level 5, they can unlock the game's flea market trading system, where they can buy necessary items and sell items that are not bound to their host.

Not only that, according to player Xize Liang, not only items, but also monsters and ghosts can be traded through the game's trading system, and the trading value of surviving monsters and ghosts often starts at one million.

Even the most ordinary one starts at a million?

and many more.

Bai Ge slapped the back of his head. "I have a whole warehouse of weird stuff here!"

Thinking of this, Bai Ge suddenly smiled and looked at the group of guys huddled together in the warehouse playing games, as if he saw a huge pile of RMB in the corner.

The thought of suddenly becoming rich in the future makes Bai Ge realize that he will definitely buy two cups of milk tea every day, drinking one and throwing the other away.

The paper effigy suddenly sensed a sense of danger, looked up and saw Bai Ge looking it over with a bright smile. It was so frightened that its hands trembled and it almost tilted the paper effigy.

At the same time, Bai Ge received a mission invitation from Xi Ze Liang.

Do you want to join a team mission?

Is the team-based dungeon finally coming?

Based on previous understanding, the difficulty of team missions will fluctuate dynamically. If the team consists entirely of hunter players of a higher level than him, he will undoubtedly face a more difficult challenge.

Evolution games don't offer any easy ways to win; any revenue-generating schemes that game studios can think of are firmly blocked.

The original suggestion was that the survival rate would be higher after LV5 when participating in team missions and dungeons, but when Bai Ge thought about being able to learn the truth about Yaotai Town, he clicked "yes" without hesitation.

The task interface then lights up, and the name of the team task appears in the task bar.

Team Mission: The Lost Secret

[Instance 1: Ghost Marriage]

Below is a website address, indicating that Bai Ge needs to log in on a computer.

Team mission instances are not standalone, but rather composed of multiple instances, which can be viewed as a large-scale scripted murder mystery game. However, the game contains multiple different clues, each leading to different routes of difficulty, and you can even uncover hidden story missions to obtain secret rewards.

Bai Ge turned on his computer, entered the website address in the search bar, and clicked on it, only to find that it was a dating website. However, the background of the dating website was a bit strange; the white chrysanthemums and the night background made Bai Ge mistakenly think that it was a link to the official website of some crematorium.

The entire webpage looks rudimentary even by the standards of aesthetics from ten years ago; it's more like a large online forum for making friends than a dating website.

Clicking on the few posts inside, it seems there are still messages left by people who accidentally logged into the website before.

Bai Ge randomly clicked on a post, but the content inside wasn't about blind date experiences; instead, it contained horrifying and tearful warnings.

"Don't register! Don't match! Don't leave comments! By the time you see this post, I might already be dead! Get off this website immediately! I was killed by curiosity! It's terrifying. You never know if the person you're chatting with on the other end of the screen is even human! Before, I was wondering why she would ask me to meet her at my house in the middle of the night. Now I understand! The thumping noises I heard in the hallway weren't from someone demolishing something in the middle of the night, but because she was the corpse of a woman who had fallen headfirst to her death! She came, and she was still banging on the door!"

Even though it's a popular post, no one else replies; it just sits there all alone on the homepage.

"No wonder this website, like the parachute seller, has no negative reviews."

After reading the post, Bai Ge frowned and muttered to himself, "Could it be that the people on this dating website aren't real people?"

Bai Ge wanted to open a few more posts, but a pop-up window appeared on the website asking for login information and registration details.

Since it was a system task, Bai Ge still opened the information bar, but he was careful and only entered a series of fabricated personal information.

Name: Bai Jie

Sex: Male

My qualifications: Personal assets of 100 million RMB, owns multiple supercars including Lamborghinis, Ferraris, and Koenigseggs, currently serves as the president of a super multinational listed group, owns ten sea-view villas, two yachts, and a private jet. Don't ask me why a diamond bachelor like me would come to this kind of website for matchmaking; give me five bottles of fine draft beer, and I can brag until you question your existence.

After thinking for a moment, Bai Ge tentatively entered the criteria for choosing a partner through blind dating.

Looking for a girlfriend through blind dates. Requirements: Attack power 3000, Defense power 2500. If interested, please contact me. Sincerely inviting you to spend the rest of your life with me. Serious inquiries only.

Once you're done, click "Publish".

However, less than a minute later, a friend request popped up in the message box.

[Lava Demon] requests to add as a friend.

???

Bai Ge looked puzzled.

Is this dating website really that sinister?

puff.

The ghosts who were just playing games together had quietly crept over without anyone noticing. The paper effigy quickly covered its mouth, desperately trying to suppress its laughter by banging its head against the wall.

The silver-haired, animal-eared little girl glanced at the paper effigy, clenched her fist, breathed into her mouth, and gave the paper effigy a small punch.

The paper effigy remained completely still.

The silver-haired, animal-eared little girl sighed, feeling that her attack power was less than five.

Bai Ge rolled her eyes at them, rested her chin on her hand and thought for a moment before revising the blind date conditions again.

Looking for a girlfriend through blind dates. Requirements: likes to wear white clothes, has long, straight black hair, and can climb out of the TV. Please contact me if interested.

Sure enough, a minute later, another user who met the criteria added them as a friend.

[36D Sadako Big Sister] requests to add as a friend.

This time, the profile picture is of a woman in white trapped inside a television screen, staring with wide, cloudy, lifeless eyes, as if looking at Bai Ge through the screen.

Could it be that even the most outrageous conditions will attract ghostly users who meet them? In that case, we can only rely on the actual product, just like the pictures on Master Kong instant noodles.

Bai Ge thought for a moment, then clicked "agree" with the mouse.

The group of ghosts behind her immediately clicked their tongues in disapproval. The nine-tailed fox loli lifted her collar, peeked out, and touched it. She was clearly a little unconvinced. She crossed her arms in front of her chest, turned her head to the side, and whimpered.

"Cough cough."

Bai Ge turned his head, coughed lightly, and explained seriously, "Actually, I originally wanted to rebuke her for being vulgar and refuse her, but I couldn't help it, her breasts were just too big."

Chapter Twenty-One: I can't watch The Voice of China without you guys!

This was Bai Ge's first time chatting with a vengeful ghost, and he showed sufficient vigilance and caution. He edited and deleted some words in the chat box, his expression solemn as he rested his chin on his hand, his palms sweating nervously. He originally thought that dating a female ghost was just like dating a girl, only requiring a simple addition of salt, peppercorns, soy sauce, and vinegar. This time, he didn't expect to have to think about how to answer if the other party threw out some deadly questions. After all, he could reason with men, but this was an unreasonable female ghost, and the logic of a living person might not make sense at all.

Finally, Bai Ge took a deep breath, placed his hands on the keyboard, quickly typed out the most straightforward text, paused briefly on the Enter key, and then solemnly sent it out.

Are you there? Let me check your approval.

The group of ghosts behind them were all dumbfounded.

Dude, what kind of seriousness is this?

However, [36D Sadako Big Sister] replied with an irrelevant answer.

Tianbin Town, Laohuai Village, tomorrow night at midnight, my husband, we'll meet there.

Laohuai Village, Tianbin Town?

Bai Ge immediately switched to search for the location. Tianbin Town is located deep in the mountains more than 30 kilometers north of Xuchang, but no paranormal rumors about Laohuai Village could be found online.

Bai Ge decided to send the message again as a test to see the other party's reaction before making a decision.

Hello, please don't call me "husband" casually. I am a gentleman, unless you send me a cesium image.

After sending this message, the profile picture of "[36D Sadako Big Sister]" quickly went dark, indicating that she was offline.

"If I don't go, the system might automatically flag the mission as a failure. And this guy on the other side might not let me off the hook either. Since it's a ghost marriage theme, it might require a sacrifice. Am I supposed to marry a vengeful ghost?"

Bai Ge has too few answers at the moment and must personally go to Tianbin Town to investigate the cause. Furthermore, the system wouldn't randomly mark the mission location in a remote mountain village where no terrorist incidents have occurred for over a decade, unless…

Bai Ge sent a message to the broker, hoping they could provide information about Tianbin Town or Laohuai Village. The broker said they needed some time and could get it done by tomorrow at the latest.

Bai Ge didn't sit idle. He put all the wearable ghost items in the warehouse into his inventory. Since it was a team mission, in order to avoid disputes outside the mission, Bai Ge used the system's help to customize his appearance, changing it to an ordinary, unremarkable face.

He then stuffed all the detonators and other items he had previously bought from the black market into his inventory. After confirming that everything was in order, he immediately went to the nearest bus station and bought a ticket to Tianbin Town, preparing to scout the location in advance.

The team mission did not specify the number of members, and Bai Ge did not plan to contact Xize Liang on the way to Tianbin Town to avoid exposing her identity.

The old, green bus reeked of cigarette smoke, sweat, and grease. There were very few passengers on the bus bound for Tianbin Town. Bai Ge boarded and casually found a seat near the back corner, secretly observing the other passengers.

Aside from two or three seemingly ordinary farmers, a middle-aged man with silver hair wearing glasses and the young man beside him caught my attention. Judging from their demeanor and mannerisms, they seemed more like scholars.

scholar?

Bai Ge subconsciously decided to stay away from these two guys, since in some horror works of art, such people are often labeled as jinxes.

Could he be a player?

A question mark remained in Bai Ge's mind when the car started moving, interrupting his thoughts.

The rugged mountain road was not easy to travel. Bai Ge set off at three o'clock in the afternoon. Soon the setting sun withdrew its last rays, and the night became dark.

On the desolate highway where there is no light pollution, it is dark and gloomy, and the headlights occasionally shake when encountering bumps.