Stage? Performance?
Ye Shuangluo looked at the contents of the invitation and couldn’t help but complain:
“Are they asking me to act in a play?”
Anyway, the activation condition is to become a formal player, which I can’t use now. He tossed it into his space backpack to gather dust.
[You have met the learning conditions for the skill “Unbeatable Stance.” Learn it? Yes/No]
“Yes.”
Ye Shuangluo silently chose yes, and the skill book instantly turned into a golden light that shot into his body.
Next, he tested his various abilities and concluded that this skill was utterly useless.
“Forget it. Who knows when I might suddenly lose, and this skill will automatically be destroyed.”
After casually waving his hand to close the skill panel, Ye Shuangluo glanced at the trial countdown.
00:08:25
With only eight minutes left, he decided not to do anything unnecessary and quietly closed his eyes, preparing to face his final trial as a reserve player.
Time ticked away, and soon the countdown reached zero.
[Trial begins. Reserve players, please enter the Trial World.]
This time was different from before; there was no spatial teleportation. Instead, a white light gate appeared before him.
Without hesitation, Ye Shuangluo stepped into the light gate, holding his knife in one hand.
……
“Help!”
In the school corridor, a chubby boy was rolling and crawling in a desperate escape.
Judging by his panicked expression and wet pants, something terrifying must be chasing him.
Bang!
A locked classroom door in the middle of the corridor was forced open by his body.
Once inside, the chubby boy immediately looked at the mirror at the back of the classroom.
Seeing no change in the mirror, he fell into deep despair.
“It’s over… It’s over! The method to summon a guardian spirit from the internet is totally unreliable.”
At that moment, a hair-raising sound echoed through the corridor.
Screech! Screech!
The sound was sharp and piercing, like nails scraping a blackboard.
Hearing this, the chubby boy shivered in fear and hid under a desk, muttering softly:
“Can’t see me, can’t see me, can’t see me, can’t see me.”
But the sharp, piercing sound drew closer and closer, making the chubby boy’s heart nearly leap out of his chest.
Suddenly, the sound stopped.
Drip!
A few drops of liquid fell on the chubby boy’s clothes, and he couldn’t help but look up.
“Ah!!!”
He screamed in terror. The desk he was hiding under had been lifted by a monster.
As he looked up, green saliva from the monster’s mouth dripped onto his face.
His mind went blank, leaving only one thought: I’m doomed!
“Motherfucker, Song Qiang, Luo Xixi, Xie Xuexiang, you bitch couple, even as a ghost, I won’t let you off.”
The chubby boy cursed while closing his eyes, ready to embrace death.
Suddenly, the mirror at the back of the classroom emitted a strong light.
In the pitch-black classroom, the light was particularly striking.
Even the monster abandoned the chubby boy and curiously circled the glowing mirror.
Crash!
The mirror shattered.
Under the watchful eyes of the monster and the chubby boy, a young man in red armor, holding a black long knife, slowly emerged from the mirror.
Seeing this, the chubby boy’s despair vanished, and he almost laughed out loud.
“It’s the guardian spirit! Great, I did it! I summoned my exclusive guardian spirit!”
Ye Shuangluo stepped out of the mirror and observed his surroundings.
It seemed to be a school classroom.
This method of arrival was indeed unique.
“Guardian spirit, kill it!”
Hmm?
Ye Shuangluo looked at the chubby boy who was clearly speaking to him.
The boy’s face was filled with fear and tension, his finger trembling as he pointed at Ye Shuangluo.
“Watch out behind you.”
Ye Shuangluo turned to see a monster with a pointed mouth and fangs, eight arms, and drooling as it looked at him.
The most terrifying part was that each fingernail on the monster’s eight arms was 0.5 meters long.
Their eyes met, and the monster grinned, as happy as a 500-pound child.
The next second, the monster swung its second left arm, clawing at him.
Smack!
The claw hit, but Ye Shuangluo was unharmed. Instead, the monster’s 0.5-meter-long nail broke off.
The monster seemed stunned, as if it had never encountered such a situation before.
Ye Shuangluo tilted his head. It would be rude not to reciprocate, so he decided to return the favor.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
He raised his hand, conjuring over a dozen ice spikes that rained down.
The monster scrambled to avoid them, but strangely, even though the ice spikes hit, it didn’t bleed.
The monster seemed to realize that the strange things were controlled by the suddenly appearing young man.
So it swung its eight arms, intending to kill the boy who created the strange things.
As the monster approached, Ye Shuangluo infused the Wind Element into his Mortal Kill and slashed at the monster before it could punch.
Swish!
A white line appeared on the monster’s neck, and it collapsed.
Although he easily dealt with the monster, Ye Shuangluo felt something was off.
The monster’s texture was strange. It felt like he was cutting through something other than flesh and blood.
He couldn’t quite describe it, but it was odd.
Moreover, even after he decapitated the monster, it didn’t bleed.
Suddenly, Ye Shuangluo noticed from the corner of his eye that the monster’s body was becoming transparent.
Within a minute, its body disappeared entirely.
Ye Shuangluo looked at the chubby boy who had been watching. The boy had witnessed everything but didn’t seem surprised.
“Great! My guardian spirit is so strong. Let’s see who dares to bully me now!
Song Qiang, Luo Xixi, Xie Xuexiang, I’ll kill you all after school tomorrow!”
The chubby boy mumbled to himself, laughing foolishly.
Ye Shuangluo shook his head, too lazy to bother with him, and checked his system interface.
[Welcome to the third trial.
100 points have been automatically spent to let you understand the language of this world.
Next, an introduction to the world background. Please listen carefully:
At 4:44:44 AM, if you turn around on the 44th step, you’ll see an eight-armed man-eating monster.
If a boy enters the girls’ restroom at 11:58:20 AM wearing red, and counts to 100 silently,
If it happens to be 12:00, the red-clad boy will appear and chase you endlessly.
If children don’t behave, the big monkey will take them away…
Various ghost stories are circulating in different parts of this world.
But at some point, these eerie and terrifying stories became reality.
Humans tried to use force to destroy the monsters born from these ghost stories.
But soon, humans discovered the terrifying nature of these monsters.
As long as someone remembers and believes these stories, they can never be completely destroyed.]
[Please note, this trial world is a war-type world (killing players from the opposing faction will earn extra rewards).]
[Main Quest: Not yet assigned as you have not joined either of the two factions.]
……
This time, there are two factions to join, and it seems they are hostile to each other.
As Ye Shuangluo pondered, he heard the chubby boy shout at him:
“Hey, guardian spirit, do you have a name?”
The chubby boy’s tone was arrogant, even somewhat commanding.
Ye Shuangluo looked at him with a cold gaze, making the boy shiver. He muttered softly:
“Could my guardian spirit be mute? Why isn’t he responding?”
After muttering, the chubby boy shouted at him:
“Crouch! Extend your hand! Shake hands!”
Ye Shuangluo looked at him as if he were an idiot. The chubby boy was dumbfounded. Not only was his guardian spirit mute, but why didn’t it follow his orders?
While the chubby boy was puzzled, Ye Shuangluo had already left the classroom, ready to leave the school.
“Stop!”
The chubby boy shouted from behind, even rushing over to grab Ye Shuangluo’s arm.
Ye Shuangluo merely sidestepped, causing the boy to miss and fall flat on his face.
The chubby boy, with his thick skin, wasn’t hurt. He quickly got up and said to Ye Shuangluo:
“You are my guardian spirit; you must obey me!”
Ye Shuangluo quietly stared at the boy, his cold gaze making the boy shiver.
But the boy still mustered the courage to meet his gaze, even shouting:
“I am your master. If I die, you cease to exist. Do you dare to kill me? Go ahead, kill me!”
Slash!
With the sound of a blade cutting through flesh, the chubby boy’s round body collapsed.
Ye Shuangluo’s eyes showed no emotion. It was the first time he had heard such a request; not fulfilling it would be a disservice to his blade.
The sensation of cutting the boy was satisfying, the true feeling of cutting through flesh and blood.
Casually flicking the blood off his blade, he stepped over the boy’s body and continued to leave the school.
As Ye Shuangluo left, a long-haired man with only an upper body crawled out of the mirror in the classroom.
The long-haired man hurriedly crawled out of the classroom and stopped in front of the boy’s body.
“Ah woo, jia ka la la sa, yi gu mo mo lu.”
He circled the boy’s body, making various incomprehensible sounds.
His strange behavior continued for a whole hour until…
“Ah!”
The chubby boy suddenly sat up and immediately checked his chest.
There was no fatal knife wound, which reassured him as he touched his chest.
“It was just a nightmare, just a nightmare.”
“Ah woo.”
The long-haired man suddenly spoke, catching the boy’s attention.
“Ah! Monster, stay away from me!”
A miraculous thing happened. The long-haired man, hearing the boy’s command, desperately dragged his half-body away.
The boy was still a bit shaken, but he inexplicably felt that the long-haired man wasn’t that scary, even feeling a strange sense of closeness.
Moreover, he felt a mysterious connection with the half-bodied monster.
He suddenly thought of something and tentatively said:
“Turn around, shake hands, bark like a dog.”
After issuing a series of commands, the long-haired man obediently followed each one.
The faint connection between them matched all the descriptions of a guardian spirit from the internet.
It seemed the long-haired man wasn’t a monster but the guardian spirit he had summoned through the ritual.
The boy praised his own cleverness.
Wait, he suddenly realized something. If the long-haired man was his guardian spirit, then what was the thing that had just slashed him?
The boy’s imagination ran wild again, and he curled up in a corner, trembling in fear.
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