119: Chapter 119 "The Human Wax Museum"

The next few days passed quite pleasantly.

No one feels sad because their wallet is getting fatter.

After sending off the last batch of customers, Chen Mo sipped tea while quietly staring at the clock in the bottom right corner of his computer desktop.

Until the number changed from 59 to 00.

[Welcome to the Thriller Game!]

[Your game theme this time is: Human Wax Museum]

[On the edge of a remote town stands a Wax Museum. The wax figures inside are lifelike, as if they possess their own souls. Every time you gaze at them, it gives you a strange thought: these wax figures seem to be alive. No one knows which genius created these wax figures, but if you are a loyal fan of this Wax Museum and like to visit often, you will discover that tonight, a wax figure modeled after you has been born...]

The blood-red text melted like wax.

A halo flashed before his eyes.

Before he could even open his eyes, Chen Mo heard a dynamic BGM.

Sunlight warmed his shoulders, a breeze brushed his face, as if it were nature's gentle touch.

Looking up at the sky, the blue sky and white clouds seemed within reach.

The surroundings were a quiet forest, but because Chen Mo's own movement speed was too fast, everything was rushing backward like camera film.

Attempting to sit up, he discovered something was restraining him.

Chen Mo looked down and found it was a seatbelt.

The engine emitted a low, powerful roar, like thunder rolling in his ears.

A strong push against his back pressed Chen Mo tightly into his seat.

"Am I in a car? And it's a sports car, too."

"If I'm not driving, then who is?"

Chen Mo turned his head and saw a familiar profile.

Jiang Xinyi was steering with one hand, her other arm propping up her chin, as she glanced at him quietly.

Afterward, she immediately straightened her gaze and looked ahead.

Speeding at 100 km/h through the quiet forest, a slight carelessness would mean they would both experience an extreme rollover.

Or even the art called an explosion.

"Awake?" Jiang Xinyi smiled.

"President? What's our situation right now?" Chen Mo asked suspiciously.

Jiang Xinyi switched hands on the steering wheel and said slowly.

"I woke up half an hour before you. At the time, I received the first mission: drive to Peters Town."

"The background shows that the two of us are a couple currently on our honeymoon."

"Get to the point..." Chen Mo was a bit speechless.

"Fine, to put it simply, we need to head to the town where the Wax Museum is located. We have a three-hour time limit, which is why I'm driving a sports car."

"Oh! The background shows that I'm a rich second-generation, and you're a rich first-generation. This corresponds to our real-life identities."

Chen Mo immediately retorted upon hearing this.

"What do you mean rich first-generation? I'm just a poor kid!"

"I saw that livestream the other day; you must have earned quite a bit these past few days, right."

"You also have a hobby of diving?"

"No! I just did it to earn more club funds."

"..."

"What about Su Qing? She entered this dungeon too." Chen Mo asked.

"She is with Meng Zhou. The two of them are our good friends who agreed to go to Peters Town together for fun."

Chen Mo secretly speculated.

Another six-person dungeon?

Meng Zhou was also Chen Mo's classmate, the boy who rationally analyzed the death rate when everyone else was telling ghost stories back then.

He wore thick glasses, had a standard engineering student look, a buzz cut, and very little social life.

According to Jiang Xinyi's description, they were heading to Peters Town in pairs.

Adding the girl named Xu Xiaoman, it proved at least 6 people had entered this dungeon.

"Any other important information?"

Jiang Xinyi shook her head.

"I think the most important piece of information right now is just one thing!"

"What?"

"Try opening the system panel."

Chen Mo immediately did as told, his fingers sliding through the air.

When the panel appeared before his eyes, Chen Mo's brows furrowed involuntarily.

"Can't open it?"

The small squares that originally displayed various items and skill cards were all gray now, and the four corners of the panel were bound by two crossed iron chains.

Whenever Chen Mo clicked with his hand, a relevant prompt would pop up.

[Unable to use]

"In other words... in this dungeon, we can't use any items and have completely become ordinary people."

"So that's how it is."

So.

After initially entering the dungeon, the forest Chen Mo observed from inside the car appeared as blurred images.

With his 700 points of Mental Value, Chen Mo could even capture the trajectory of a fired bullet; combined with 100 points of Agility, dodging bullets through positioning was entirely possible.

In his normal state, the forest Chen Mo saw should have remained clear.

If he wanted to, he could even change it to slow-motion mode just by controlling his pupil focus.

Sure enough, even his personal attributes were all locked, and his physical state had become that of an ordinary person.

His Adam's apple bobbed, and Chen Mo felt a trace of nervousness.

"That is to say... if we encounter any ghosts, we won't be able to fight at all."

"With Mental Value at a normal person's level, encountering monsters in the dungeon would cause our bodies to be completely unable to move due to the Fear released by the opponent."

Jiang Xinyi nodded.

"We should avoid combat and take the deduction route."

Hearing Jiang Xinyi's words, Chen Mo didn't quite agree.

Since the Thriller Game designed a combat system, it would never abandon this setting.

This was what Chen Mo thought in his heart.

Perhaps there was some way to lift the item restriction and let players regain their strength.

He felt that Jiang Xinyi might be thinking the same, but was deliberately misleading him with her words.

Sure enough, the competitive President had started treating him as an opponent from now on.

Although the two were sitting in the same car, they each had their own ulterior motives.

Passing through a small forest ahead, a fork in the road appeared.

Chen Mo and the others took the middle path.

At this moment, two more tree-lined paths appeared on the left and right, respectively.

"Chen Mo! I'm here!"

Su Qing rolled down the car window and waved at Chen Mo and Jiang Xinyi.

She was riding in an ordinary SUV.

Looking inside the car past Su Qing, he saw Meng Zhou with a calm expression, holding the steering wheel.

He only glanced at Chen Mo secretly before straightening his head.

Chen Mo also waved at Su Qing, and then he looked at the tree-lined path on the left.

"Ah?!"

When he saw the two people sitting in the convertible on the left, Chen Mo felt his brain go blank.

The two people in the car had different expressions when they saw Chen Mo's expression.

Xu Xiaoman's face was flushed, and she covered her face with her small hands.

She thought Chen Mo felt she was dressed too skimpily and might have a bad first impression of her as a bad girl.

She felt very embarrassed and tried to shrink her neck down, wanting to hide herself.

But what she didn't know was...

Chen Mo was not shocked because of her at all!

The man driving next to Xu Xiaoman.

He was wearing a clean and tidy blue police uniform, and even sitting in the car, he maintained an upright posture.

It was as if the word "Justice" was carved onto his face.

Chen Mo's eyebrows went up and down, and he said in surprise.

"Officer Lu?! You entered too?!"