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Unlike the mission I received for the first time, this mission did not give a very clear hint, not even the detailed address.


However, the task did not seem to have a time limit. 


‘Does it mean that I am allowed to find it slowly?’


Now that the task had come, I had to solve the task of course, but before that, I wanted to try the sunglasses I got from the slot machine.


The previous items helped me a lot during the task, so at this time I had high expectations for this pair of sunglasses.


As a High-Level Item, Protective Clothing saved my life during the last quest. This pair of sunglasses was also High-Level Item, so it should also be very useful.


With this feeling, I put on sunglasses.


But soon, I became very disappointed, because no matter how I looked at it, except for the view before my eyes got darker,  there were no other changes.


I looked around and found nothing special.


Is it probably the way I use it is wrong?


Years of RPG playing experience told me not to give up this item so quickly.


I walked out of my flat and looked downstairs through the window on the side of the corridor.


At this time, I found that after putting on my sunglasses, I saw a faint white light glowing from the pedestrians on the street, and even the cars driving on the road would glow with a faint white light.


Different from the white light on pedestrians, there was a faint orange light blasting towards the sky at a distance from me.


That was the direction of the industrial zone.


This discovery made me very pleasantly surprised. Thinking of this mission, I understood the role of sunglasses at this moment. It could show all the suspicious places related to the incident in eye-catching colors.


Sure enough, the items in this game could play a decisive role in the task.


After learning that the orange light was likely to be the mission location, I left my flat and headed towards the orange light.


Before proceeding with the task, I specifically confirmed my status.


Name: Ye ChunYi


Level: Lv.2


HP:108/108


MP:35/35


Items: Post-it notelv.1X3, Cardboard BoxX1, protective clothingLv.1, sunglasses Lv.1 


After a half-hour drive, I came to the industrial zone. According to the guidance of the sunglasses, I quickly found the factory mentioned in the mission.


It was no longer appropriate to call it a factory at this time, because what I saw before my eyes was just a dilapidated building surrounded by barbed wire.


Around the broken building was covered with yellow withered grass, and the green creeper spread around the entire wall of the building. The building has been in disrepaired for an unknown number of years. The windows of the building no longer had any glass, even the paint on the wall had almost peeled off.


Although I didn't know what kind of factory in front of me used to be, I could see the orange glow from the factory through my sunglasses, and I could be sure that the factory in front of me was the building mentioned in the task objective.


I walked around the barbed wire fence, and soon discovered that at the back of the factory, the barbed wire fence had been cut into a hole for one person to pass through. Without hesitation, I bent down and passed through this hole and entered the factory.


As I said before, the inside of the factory was full of weeds, but the weeds in front of me had been trampled, forming a path. Obviously, someone had used this path recently.


I walked along the path for a while, and when I approached the building, I saw an open iron gate at the end of the path.


There was no light inside the iron gate. I looked inside with the help of the sunlight, it was a staircase leading to the underground.


The task objective is to investigate this factory, so do I need to check the below of this factory.


Except for the first few steps of the staircase could be illuminated by sunlight, it was pitch black further down, and there was not even a single light. The stairs seemed to extend to the end of darkness.


But I didn't feel the slightest sense of fear. I was not afraid of the darkness, and it could be understood that I was originally more courageous than ordinary people.


Because there was no light below, I chose to take off the sunglasses. Although the sunglasses were very useful, using them in such a dark place would only make me unable to see anything.


But to be cautious, I take out a Post-it note while entering the factory.


The stairs leading to the underground were very long and were not the usual straight stairs. I had already taken two turns, but the same as before, until now, I have not found any ray of light in the surroundings.


I have to rely on the flashlight that came with my mobile phone to illuminate. Although the range that could be illuminated was not far, it was barely enough for me to see the stairs under my feet.


After I walked cautiously for another half a minute, the narrow space in front of me suddenly became larger. Although the stairs were still stretching down, a very wide platform had appeared on my right.


I shone the flashlight toward that area.


On the platform, there were several things similar to wooden stakes, one of which seemed to have a person tied to it. The weak flashlight of my mobile phone could not allow me to clearly see that person's face, but I could vaguely distinguish that she was a woman.


She seemed to have seen me too, struggling slightly.


She was still alive. I hurriedly reached my hand to my mouth and made a silent gesture to her.


Just like the mission said, something unusual was really happening underground in this factory.

















Chapter 13


I didn’t plan to untie this woman who I was not familiar with first.


If I untie her now, she might make sound because of panic, then in this quiet and closed underground, any sound would be infinitely amplified, and it was very likely that those who tied her underground would find out. At that time, the difficulty of my task would be greatly increased, which was what I didn't want to see.


After I solved all the troubles below, I would come back to save her.


Thinking of this, I made a silent gesture to her again, and then continued to shone the light of the phone at the stairs under my feet.


When the woman saw me walking down, she didn't make any sound, and even her previous struggle stopped. 


This made me sigh with relief.


Sorry, when I come up, I will loosen your tie.


With such thoughts in mind, I continued to walk deep into the stairs. After walking for about half a minute or so, the staircase was still pitch black, and there was no light except the light from the phone in my hand.


Just as I was guessing how long this staircase would take, I suddenly felt like a cool breeze blowing across my neck.


This made me feel very strange, how could there be wind blowing in such a closed underground passage.


I tried to reach out to touch my neck, but found that the world in front of me suddenly began to spin.


After about two seconds, my head hit the ground heavily, and my cheeks were close to the stairs.


I didn't know why, the scene in front of me gradually blurred, and even my eyelids were extraordinarily heavy. I could only vaguely see a body. The right hand of the body was holding a mobile phone with the flashlight function on, and the left hand of the body was touching the neck, but the head that should be on the neck had disappeared, and the broken part of the neck was gushing blood out like a fountain.


The headless body in front of me made me feel very familiar...


That was, my own body.


Only then did I realize that at that moment, my HP had dropped from 108 to 0 in an instant.


My head had been cut off.


When I opened my eyes again, I found that I had returned to my bed.


After confirming the time, it was 9:00 am on May 24th. As I expected, I had returned to the same morning. Looking up, the [3/3] on the head had changed to [2/3].


I sat up and fell silent.


This was my second death. It was different from the first time I died. I didn't feel any pain in this death. Even the fact that I had been beheaded was not discovered until the end.


However, the feeling of fear was several times stronger than at the first death.


That came from the fear of the unknown.


Is this really a game?


It was completely different from the experience of playing games before. The fear of death made my hands tremble slightly at this moment.


Although it was better than vomiting directly after the first death, I still could still accept the fact that I had died again.


And the feeling this death brought me was different from the first time.


When I died for the first time, I knew why I died and who killed me. But this time, I didn’t know what killed me, and I couldn’t even tell whether I killed because I triggered some kind of trap, or someone killed me.


So even if I did it all over again, I didn't have any confidence that I could complete the task the second time.


After taking a few deep breaths, I forced myself to calm down. Panic was not the way to solve the problem. At this moment, calm analysis was the only way to find the solutions.


Did I overlook something?


I carefully recalled whether I had missed any key information.


There were stairs along the way, the only key information I might have missed...


It was the woman who was tied up.


I stood up suddenly, could it be that that woman was the key to the task?


So far I was not familiar with this game. I could only slowly explore it step by step. If I really neglected the woman and caused my own death, then did it mean that all the characters appearing in the mission in this game had some kind of roles?


It was very easy to verify this conjecture.


After I was ready, I left my flat immediately and followed the actions of the last time and arrived at the factory. Until I walked into the stairs, I did not make any different actions from the last time.


When I came to the factory and walked down the stairs again to the wide platform, I shone the flashlight toward the platform.


Sure enough, the woman was still there. Like last time, she also saw me and struggled slightly.


To be safe, I put on my sunglasses again.


The sight in front of me made me sigh with relief.


Although the surrounding light looked dim, after putting on the sunglasses, through the sunglasses, I still clearly saw the girl who was tied to the wooden stake exuded a terrifying dark crimson light. Saying that it was dark crimson, actually in the dark, it looked like a dark colour even more.


Like a burning black sun, those rays of light twisted and writhed around her.


I had never seen this color on pedestrians on the road or anywhere else, and even the color indicating the factory was just a faint orange-yellow color.


I swallowed involuntarily, trying to relieve my tension at this time. It seemed that the previous decision was wrong, and the woman in front of me didn't look like a simple character.


Although I was a bit resistant, I had to choose to approach her.


I walked slowly, moving a little bit in the direction of the woman on the platform.


When the distance was close enough, a system prompt popped up before my eyes.


[Task Objective: Rescue the hostage, difficulty: E]









Chapter 14


Sure enough, the mission changed, and I had missed the task in the last attempt.


But now I could be sure that the tasks in the game would only appear at the beginning, and subsequent tasks clues needed to be triggered or found by myself.


Seeing that the guess in my heart was confirmed, I was finally relieved. Anyway, with the task objective, it would be much easier to handle afterwards.


I made a few steps toward the move, and carefully started to look at the woman in front of me.


It was not quite right to say that it was a woman. It was actually a girl. She looked about six or seven years younger than me. She should be about the same age as a high school student. However, unlike what I expected, her mouth was not gagged by anything.


Was it because she saw my hand gesture to ask her not to make a noise?


If that was the case, then she was really a calm girl.


But then again, why was she wearing a maid outfit?


Although I was very puzzled, I took off my sunglasses and tried to say hello to her.


"Are you okay?"


The girl slowly opened her eyes and looked at me.


Maybe she has been in a dark place for a long time, and she couldn’t quickly adapt to the mobile phone flashlight in my hand.


I hurriedly pointed the flashlight's light in another direction.


The bright light in front of her disappeared, and the girl finally opened her eyes completely, but when I saw the girl opened her eyes, I was taken aback.


You want to know why? Because I found that the girl’s pupils were golden.


She wore a headband on her head similar to that worn by a maid, and her long and smooth black hair draped over her shoulders. The small and exquisite face had two golden eyes like jewels in the depths of the dark underground, exuding a breathtaking light.


"I’m fine."


The girl's soft voice awakened me from my stupefaction. It was no exaggeration to say that at this moment, I felt like a spring breeze had gently brushed across my face.

Although I should be a lot older than the girl in front of me, I had to admit that in my more than 20 years of life, this was the first time I had seen such a unique girl.


"What happened? Why are you being tied up here?"


I didn’t feel embarrassed at all to stare at the girl’s face all the time. Although beautiful women were rare, my life was also rare. I clearly remember that I was beheaded not far from here not long ago. In order to avoid such things from happening again, it was better to promptly ask for useful information.


The girl frowned slightly when she heard the words, as if she was recalling something, and then slowly said after a while.


"I was still at home in the morning, and two men broke into my house. They covered my mouth with a cloth and then after that… I can't remember anymore... "


There was a confused expression on her face, as if she hadn't figured out where she was.


"Don't move, I'll untie you."


Both of our voices were suppressed very low, for fear of being discovered. Then I walked around behind the wooden stake and started to untie her.


According to this girl, she was forcibly brought over by two men this morning, so there would be at least two men underground at this time.


Without knowing whether the other party had weapons, it was still difficult to deal with two adult men only with these items in my hands.


When I was thinking about these things, I finally untied the rope that bound the girl.


However, something unexpected happened at this time. Because the girl had been tied tightly by a rope before, the blood supply to her legs might not be sufficient. After leaving the stake, she could not stand firmly. She staggered and was about to fall to the ground.


"Ah!"


She couldn't help but scream. Because it was the sound made inadvertently when she was frightened, so she didn't control the volume, and now her scream echoed all over the underground of the factory.


I hurriedly pulled the rope in my hand and finally pulled her to lean backward.


But even more troublesome things also appeared.


"What's that noise?"


From the lower level of the stairs, a man's voice sounded. It followed by the sound of a person's footsteps hurrying up the stairs.


Shit!


I cursed secretly and hurried to the girl's side, lowered my voice and said to her.


"No matter what happens next, don't ask anything, and make no sound. Nod if you can do it."


The girl nodded her head hurriedly, knowing that she had caused a big trouble.


Seeing that she agreed, I hurriedly turned off the flashlight function of the phone. Our surroundings instantly plunged into darkness again. After making sure that the girl could no longer see me, I took out the Cardboard Box.


Prop: Cardboard BoxX1


Quality: Normal


Effect: When the cardboard box is used, it can provide a very good hiding effect.


Then I pulled her toward me without saying a word and hugged her tightly, and then covered the two of us with the Cardboard Box.


This was the first time I have used the Cardboard Box. As for the specific effect, I didn't have any clue.


But at this time, I could only believe in the effects of game items.


The person's footsteps were getting closer and closer, and soon he reached the platform.


Then I heard him yelling towards the depths of the stairs.


"Shit! That woman escaped!"


There was another man's voice coming from down the stairs.


"Fuck, I told you not to catch this woman, but you I didn't listen to me."


As I guessed, there really was another man below.








Chapter 15


There were drumbeat-like footsteps from the depths of the stairs, it seemed that the man under the stairs also ran up.


Then, the footsteps of the two people frequently sounded around me, seeming to be searching the platform.


My heartbeat was very fast. Two Post-it notes had already been prepared by me. If the Cardboard Box failed and we were discovered, I could also stick the Post-it notes on them as quickly as possible. .


Fortunately, none of the items in the game disappointed me. Until the two searched the entire platform, they didn't seem to find us and Cardboard Box.


"What should we do now."


One of the men asked the other.


"God knows where the woman went, we have to move now. Let’s relocate the thing below first."


"......This seems to be the only. Fine!"


The other person's voice sounded very unwilling. He hesitated for a while, but finally realized that he could only do so.


After the two discussed, they hurried down the stairs together.


I was finally relieved to hear the two people's footsteps were gradually moving away from me. With items in my hand, I was confident that I could fight two adult men at close range, but with this girl by my side, I was not sure.


After all, the task was to save the hostage.


Thinking of this, I remembered that there was a girl here.


Since the space in the Cardboard Box was very limited, the two of us are now holding each other tightly. I could clearly feel the softest part of the girl and her sultry body temperature.


She was not tall, nearly a head shorter than me. Although it was pitch black, and I couldn’t see anything, I could clearly feel the girl put her head on my chest, as if listening to my heartbeat. .


Realizing this, my breathing became slightly heavier.


The girl seemed to notice my reaction, and her breathing became a little faster.


In the narrow space, our breath seemed to bring a hint of heat to the air.


This situation made me completely unable to focus on the two people outside, and could only vaguely feel that they seemed to be working together to move something up the stairs.


This situation lasted for more than ten minutes, and when my legs became a little numb from standing, I could hear the sound of a car leaving, then it was silent again.


The girl and I didn't speak immediately, but kept silent for about five minutes very tacitly. It was not until there were no more sounds around during this period that we both exhaled a sigh of relief.


I took the phone out of my pocket, and the first thing I saw after lighting it up was the girl's slightly flushed cheeks.


She looked up at me as if embarrassed and turned to look at the Cardboard Box.


"What is this."


Although I was addicted to the feeling of hugging the girl, I still lifted the Cardboard Box covering us.


"As you can see, it's Cardboard Box."


With that said, I shined a flashlight at the Cardboard Box that had fallen aside.


There was a look of disbelief on the girl's face. She looked at the Cardboard Box in confusion, and then at me.


"We just hid here to escape the search by those two?"


Not to mention her, even I also felt ridiculous.


But this was the magic of items.


It was a pity that I couldn't explain to her that this was a game item or something. If I really said this, the other party would think that I had a problem with my brain.


"I guess they didn't see it."


I casually made up a reason that sounded like a joke. After all, the two of us were almost in the center of the platform just now. If they couldn’t find us, the only explanation was that the two were blind.


Obviously, the girl didn’t believe my far-fetched excuses either.


But instead of letting her continue asking, I took the lead to change the subject.


"Okay, those two people should have left now, let's leave here."


After finishing talking, I took out the phone, turned on the flashlight, started to walk outside, completely stopping her intention to continue inquiring.


"Huh..."


Seeing that I didn't want to explain too much to her, the girl behind me gave a meaningful snort, then showed a mysterious smile, followed me, and walked up the stairs together.

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