YM778.TV Chapter 55: He wants to break the rules
"Once a fierce ghost successfully possesses a corpse and resurrects, it can instantly defeat the other fierce ghosts within the instance."
"Players in this eerie game house fierce ghosts to gain strength, and after completely accommodating them, their power can surpass that of ordinary fierce ghosts."
Although this last piece of information was hardly worth mentioning to Tan Shuchang, perhaps as a consequence of having lived two lifetimes, he tended to hold onto even seemingly useless things for a while to see their use, rather than discarding them directly.
"To bear my exact name and also be able to defeat fierce ghosts in such a short time, could it possibly be..." While Tan Shuchang was thinking this, he suddenly noticed that the person he thought shared his name had now merged with his own name.
To be more precise, the previous second rank was removed and updated to show his own recent two-minute completion of the fierce ghost instance right after the first rank.
Seeing this, Tan Shuchang’s expression instantly turned rather interesting.
"A delay?"
He widened his eyes, somewhat incredulous.
A delay was actually quite normal, but this was an eerie game! Possessing divine powers to the extent that it could pull him into the game, and still, it failed due to a delay?
If this were to happen to a person, it would mean a total breakdown of character...
However, Tan Shuchang also realized why he couldn’t leave messages like other players. It wasn’t that he was restricted, but rather the "internet speed" was severely delayed.
Therefore, Tan Shuchang turned his attention to the other players’ messages: "They indeed cannot see my name, but why can I see theirs, and theirs as well?"
Tan Shuchang shifted his gaze downward.
Eerie game instance player fastest completion leaderboard.
Top rank—Tan Shuchang. Related completion records: 1. The final humanity of the dormitory, total time two minutes, one minute waiting for players to gather, one minute to find and defeat the fierce ghost inside the dormitory. 2. Endless dormitory, fierce ghost defeated upon appearance.
Second rank—Shigu. Related completion records: Endless Ghost Trial, time one hour seventeen minutes, defeated three fierce ghosts during the trial.
Third rank—Shi Fangqin. Related completion records: Endless dormitory, time seven hours eight minutes, defeated the fierce ghost.
Fourth...
This is what appeared in Tan Shuchang’s view, both his and others’, all of which he could see very clearly.
And just then, quite suddenly, Tan Shuchang saw that the name of the person in second place, Shigu, suddenly turned red and then the person disappeared directly from the leaderboard! The original third-ranked, Shi Fangqin, consequently moved up to second place.
The ranks below, too, moved up one place.
"This Shigu, has he been successfully possessed by a fierce ghost?" Tan Shuchang was somewhat surprised, he hadn’t expected to witness such a scene.
And at that moment, Tan Shuchang noticed a message from the previously mentioned red-name player.
The message read: One has disappeared from the leaderboard, but it’s not the one in first place, and moreover, the speed of this red-name falling off the ranks has increased, so... could the one in first place really just be a flesh-and-blood player?
It was evident that the other party was constantly trying to ascertain whether Tan Shuchang, the leader, was a possessor.
And this statement made Tan Shuchang certain of one thing, apparently the messages from this red-name player were only visible to him and other red-name players.
Because other non-red-name players were actively discussing in the messages, only the red-name player’s comments were very quiet.
This made Tan Shuchang wonder for a moment.
But soon, he had to give up trying to figure it out because there was an obvious delay on this official eerie game site, which made it impossible for him to contact the other party.
So, after hesitating for a moment about whether refining such spirit-possession considered cannibalism, Tan Shuchang prepared to leave.
However, at that moment, Tan Shuchang suddenly discovered an option appearing before him.
[As the top-ranked Player and holder of the Impermanence Order, you enjoy special privileges. Would you like to broadcast your past instance clearance records with high completeness and clarity?]
"You can broadcast this? Then go ahead and broadcast it!"
Being in the Jiawu Realm, Tan Shuchang had no need to act mysterious, and if the other party could come to the Jiawu Realm… it also meant he could leave the Jiawu Realm.
However, after his words fell, it wasn’t immediately broadcasted but instead another option appeared.
[If you choose to broadcast, as someone who enjoys special privileges, you can choose either Paid Broadcast or Free Broadcast. The former allows you to directly harvest the player’s flesh and blood; the latter grants nothing. Please choose carefully. Once selected, it cannot be changed.]
Tan Shuchang glanced at the latter option’s harvest and then chose the free option without a second thought.
After all, he had no use for players’ flesh and blood.
Although there was a demonic Cultivation Technique that required flesh and blood, compared to that, refining specters brought much greater benefits to Tan Shuchang!
Exhausted and bloody, he had cultivated a blood-flesh cultivation technique. Yet, its contribution to his strength wasn’t even one percent of that from a single specter lifting instance.
And it carried significant side effects.
Having made his decision, Tan Shuchang then blocked the display of this bizarre game’s official website. Like a property frame, whether it showed or not was controlled actively by Tan Shuchang.
However, Tan Shuchang’s resolute departure, especially his last decision, had left the players of this peculiar game stunned.
"The top-ranking player is so young?"
"And looks so good?"
"Wait, what about his ghost techniques? Are they this brutal? Capture a specter, fold it brutally, and just shove it in?" The comments section in the instance clearance recording became notably lively.
"What’s this?" This was posted by a red-named player, and naturally, only other red-named ones could see his posts.
"He’s exempting the murder rules!" Another red-named player’s comment appeared. Unlike the others, this player’s red name was notably darker.
"Is this a top-tier god player of the Yujing Association?" A regular flesh-and-blood player commented, having encountered members of the Yujing Association in an instance and then being forced to surrender his personal reality information.
Personal reality information is a protective measure for all players by the bizarre game.
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Without obtaining a player’s real information, one could never hope to find them unless it was through the game’s "backstage."
"What Yujing Association? I’ve encountered this ’Leg Bro’ before, and he even had a conflict with several official members of the Yujing Association at that time! Moreover, back then, ’Leg Bro’ didn’t even know what a player self-sponsored instance was!"
"Look at this clearance record, isn’t that the top-ranker’s third instance? Back then he was just a Grade D newbie, isn’t it perfectly normal that he knew nothing?"
"So if he’s not a Jiawu Realm god-level player of the Yujing Association, why does the Yujing Association claim so? And why are they collecting players’ real information? I refused to give them mine and they threatened to leave me in the instance."
As these regular flesh-and-blood players continued to post, the red-named players also learned of this fact.
"What does that guy from the Yujing Association want to do?" a red-named player commented.
"He probably wants to break the rules," commented the red-named player whose name was nearly black.
"Your Honor, then how shall we proceed?" Other red-named players, upon seeing this one, immediately showed respect.
"Rules cannot be broken."
"Yes, Your Honor. I know where he is; I’ll handle this," replied a red-named player, then a special report letter was sent out by this red-named player.