Player Reload

[Task Goal: At 20:00 tonight, remain alone in front of the mirror in the enclosed bathroom and wait for teleportation]

[Task Reward: Will be announced upon receiving the next stage task prompt]

[Failure Penalty: Termination]

Li Cheng put on the mask of pain and rubbed his temples. Just from the task name and goal, he could feel the system's deep malice.

Gray Rain looked at him with a constipated expression and curiously asked, "What's up, got a task?"

"Yeah."

Li Cheng briefly recounted the task log, and Gray Rain blinked, "This isn't a punishment task, the difficulty shouldn't be too exaggerated, right?"

"Hard to say."

Li Cheng shook his head, "Due to having the Toy Factory, this nuclear-powered money printer and super logistics base, my current strength has significantly exceeded the baseline for a Level 21 player.

The system is likely to match me with a team of average Level 25 or even Level 30 Transcendents.

Throwing such a group into a script task named [Escape from Loli Island], it's hard to imagine what perverted limitations the killing field would set, or what kind of final boss would be deployed."

He didn't tell Gray Rain, if the task was indeed [Escape from Loli Island], it would be fine; but he feared the killing field might play a homophone trick, and upon entering, the task content would be [Okinawa Slave Island],

then Li Cheng could only gleefully give the killing field a middle finger, praising its ancestors for eighteen generations, and decisively use the [Emergency Escape Card] to run away.

"There's always a way when the car reaches the mountain, and the boat will naturally straighten when it reaches the bridge. After overcoming so many big storms and waves, maybe, should, probably won't capsize, right?"

With a slight encouragement for himself, Li Cheng turned around to make various preparations.

Actually, there wasn't anything special to prepare, just commissioning information broker Zhangsun Yao to collect related materials; going to the slum to purchase some possibly needed items, storing them in the three-dimensional warehouse; charging the [Hidden Energy Source] on the back and so on.

At present, his player panel reads:

All preparations were completed. At 11:50 PM, Li Cheng, fully armed, stood in front of the bathroom mirror in his home.

A faint citrus deodorant scent lingered in the air, and through the bathroom door, the sound of a TV program playing in the living room could be vaguely heard.

"Tonight's Extreme Challenge, among seven contestants, who will win the final victory, and push that door open, let's wait and see."

Li Cheng absentmindedly scanned the barely noticeable water stains on the mirror, following past experiences. The system teleportation was always instantaneous, with no anomalies.

But this time...

The clock's hands abruptly froze at 19:59:59, this second seemed to slow down countless times.

The Doppler effect extremely stretched the sound of the TV program from the living room, lowering in pitch.

Li Cheng's brain speed, boosted by the Multi-threaded Brain Domain Method, was fast enough to react, with a look of bafflement and confusion appearing on his face.

If not for the Passive effect of the [Vast Sea Soul-locking Bell] being clear in Divine Wisdom, he would doubt whether he had hallucinated.

In the next instant, in the bathroom mirror, translucent purple tendrils suddenly emerged, wrapping around Li Cheng's whole body like a Venus flytrap, pulling him into the mirror and throwing him into a zero-gravity space.

The time deceleration effect was still in effect, and Li Cheng's body and limbs were uncontrollable, so he could only scan the surroundings with his peripheral vision.

This place seemed to be a wide and narrow circular tunnel, radiating dazzling lights of various colors and distances that were hard to estimate.

Various lights formed regular or irregular geometric patterns, flashing and changing at speeds beyond the human eye's limit, causing intense nausea.

A bit like the Time Tunnel from Doraemon every time he used the Time Machine. And a bit like the hallucinations after eating too many mushrooms.

In this patch of blinding light, besides Li Cheng, there were six other indistinct silhouettes, drifting together toward the front of the tunnel.

The seven noticed each other, but the time turbulence prevented any sound from being uttered.

Buzz!

Like the stool stuck in the toilet finally flushing down the drain,

Li Cheng exited the Time Tunnel, all the lights before him extinguished.

He forcefully blinked to eliminate the eye pain from residual visual effects.

Immediately, he noticed something was amiss.

He seemed to be in a crouching position, sitting on a not-so-soft bed. His eyes were covered by knitted fabric, a towel stuffed in his mouth, and both hands and feet were handcuffed.

Moreover, the basic stats of his body had significantly decreased, his height around 134 cm, and weight approximately 30 kg. Equivalent to about 0.035 Gray Rain.

Worse yet, the backpack and skill bar had grayed out...

[In this task, players assume a special role-playing mode, including Attribute Enhancement, Extraordinary Power, item bar, skill bar, and all data will match the body fitness of the role played and the world view's progression]

WTF...

Li Cheng's eyelids twitched. He had previously experienced a complete role-playing mode, where there was no attribute enhancement, and it was impossible to use any skills or skill scrolls except title skills, unable to access items in the item bar.

And this special role-playing mode seemed different again. In the personal panel, all his attributes quietly changed to

[Strength: 3]

[Agility: 3]

[Intelligence: 5]

[Constitution: 3]

[Perception: 5]

[Charm: 7]

[Spiritual Power Value: 40]

The descriptions of all items and skills in the backpack column changed significantly, high-quality items like Mercy Soul Song, Liangyi Blade, Floating Engine, directly showed red, indicating the spiritual power value was too low to use.

Items like Bat Hook Claw Gun, Bat-winged Heavy Armored Motorcycle, Three-dimensional Warehouse, which didn't rely heavily on spiritual power value, were all prefixed with [Child Version].

There was no time to ponder the meaning of this so-called [Child Version], as the system prompt continued to ring.

[Phase One Task Goal: Escape from the Cell]

[Task Time Limit: 20 minutes]

[Task Reward: Increase by 10% based on current ability unlock progress]

[Task Failure Penalty: Permanent Retention in Script World]

[Task Briefing Sent]

A deep and hoarse mechanical-electronic voice sounded,

[Located in the Caribbean Sea, Little St. James Island in the United States Virgin Islands, with beautiful scenery and pleasant climate, the island's helipad, gas station, seawater desalination system, tennis courts, gym, etc., make it a five-star hotel on the sea]

[Visitors entering and leaving the island are all elite figures from around the world, including the former President of the United States, the former Treasury Secretary, the Prince of the UK, the former Prime Minister of Israel, a famous jurist, a celebrity physicist...]

[But outside, very few people, or at least currently, very few people know about the dirty and filthy darkness hidden beneath this island]

[Will the gilded canaries in the cage escape unscathed, or will they have their wings clipped]

[Try it out, I'm very much looking forward to it]