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Chapter 114 - 108: The Horn

Chapter 114: Chapter 108: The Horn

Opening his eyes, Li Cheng returned to the familiar living room, stretched lazily, unhurriedly removed the White Bone Armor, and walked into the corridor, scanning himself back and forth with a Geiger counter.

The Wasteland World had once undergone a cataclysmic nuclear war, causing even the dust on his clothes to carry minute amounts of radiation, so Li Cheng took off his clothes and tossed them into the incinerator.

Then, in a temporary shower made of plastic film, he washed his body, cleansing away any traces.

[Script Task "Oh no! I’m Surrounded by Beauties!" has been completed]

[Calculating Rewards]

[Player Overall Performance: S+, game currency and Experience Points gained increased to 160%]

"I love bathing, my skin feels so good~"

Li Cheng hummed the tune, not surprised by the result. As he had analyzed in the studio, this task was filled with misdirection and traps. It misled players into deceitful mutual kills using the facade of a battle royale and a deadly reality show.

"To ensure not being eliminated and to collect clues, to force the show’s team to appear with evidence, and ultimately to uncover the hidden world view was necessary to obtain an S+ rating.

If misled by the killing field, all eight players turning on each other until only one man and one woman survived, it’s true, survival would be possible too, but the final rating would definitely drop sharply. Perhaps only A, or B."

Li Cheng muttered, "And one must also consider the killing field’s twisted sense of humor and perverse nature. The task objective requires [Follow the game rules, survive until the end of the game].

The game rules are in the hands of the Wasteland show team.

If they were to have no class and turn the love reality show into ’Foreign Daughter-in-law, Local Son’ type, then it would truly be game over."

"Foreign Daughter-in-law, Local Son" is a Cantonese situational comedy series produced by Guangdong TV Station, which started airing in November 2000 and has aired over four thousand episodes to date, with several changes of cast, making it the longest-running and most episodes in the world for a situational comedy.

Although the villa was spacious with full entertainment facilities, never worrying about food or drink, surely one couldn’t truly live there forever? Dying of old age in the script world and returning to the real Earth as an aged corpse...

Being far from home as a child and returning old, that would be hellish.

[Task Reward 1: 600 Experience Points]

[Task Reward 2: 600 Game Coins]

With a 1.6 times multiplier, Li Cheng earned 960 Experience Points and game currency from this trip, leveling up twice from Lv6 to Lv8, and bringing his Experience Bar to 200/800.

The total amount of Game Coins he held also increased from 4090 to 5050.

"If I exchanged all of it for cash, it would be close to a decent little goal, heh."

Li Cheng finished showering, walked out of the White Bone corridor, and meanwhile sent a friend communication to Little Red Riding Hood.

Previously, he had obtained a lot of gold from Little Red Riding Hood, which he alloyed with other metals to cast into gold ingots, but then the villa was destroyed when Leonardo detonated a Cloud Burst Bomb, and those gold ingots couldn’t be recovered.

He transferred the gold’s equivalent in Game Coins to Little Red Riding Hood, who at first accepted it, repeatedly thanked Li Cheng for carrying her through the task, and then transferred the money back.

The value of the Emergency Escape Card obtained from successfully completing the task was far higher than gold, a hundred or even a thousand times more.

Apart from Little Red Riding Hood, Jin Huixing also sent a communication to express her gratitude to Li Cheng and indicated that she was willing to pay a fee—since Li Cheng and Little Red Riding Hood were acquainted and had a basis for cooperation, he could have eliminated Jin Huixing first in the script task to ensure his own safety before confronting the show team, thereby maximizing the chance for a clear-through.

It was as if Jin Huixing had picked up a life for free.

"I don’t need payment."

Helping Jin Huixing avoid elimination was just an incidental thing, and Li Cheng was too lazy to fuss over it. He changed into his pajamas, paused, and then said, "But there is a small favor I’d like to ask of you."

"Uh?"

A few minutes later, Jin Huixing, now wearing a pop idol’s makeup and outfit, appeared on b-site’s live streaming room.

Her nose was slightly red, feigning a mild cold, and with hands clasped and an apologetic smile, she spoke to the camera in accented Mandarin: "Hello to all viewers, I am icey Jin Huixing, and from today I am officially joining b-site. I am very sorry that due to my personal health reasons, I couldn’t complete the concert in Yin City, but I hope to make it up to everyone with this live singing session. Here is the first song ’Meeting Angel’..."

Li Cheng opened WeChat on his phone and just as expected, saw Han Letian had instantly posted a new Moment—a panda emoji, one third confused, one third surprised, and one third ecstatic.

"Hehe."

Casually turning off his phone, Li Cheng checked the next reward he’d received.

[Task Reward 3: Random item*1, quality depends on the clearance rating]

The thrilling moment of unboxing had arrived once again. He focused intently, channeling his thoughts towards the treasure chest.

"Open!"

A flash of light passed by, and an... horn appeared in the item slot.

[Item Name: Thunder Horn]

[Type: Ritual Prop (Consumable)]

[Quality: Fine]

[Special Effect: Thunderstorm Descending. Blow the horn to summon a thunderstorm with a 50-meter radius centered on the user. The thunderstorm lasts up to 5 minutes and attacks all targets except for the user. The thunderstorm can be formed in any environment (including underwater, vacuum, cloudless deserts), but if used during a thunderstorm, its power will be further increased. Remaining uses: 3]

[Consumption: A bottle of fine wine aged over ten years]

[Cooling Time: 20 minutes]

[Use Conditions: Must have killed more than ten humanoid creatures in a single battle]

[Note: Left zero, right fire; call upon the Thunder God for help; three phases, four wires, reveal the Electric Mother]

"Uh..."

Li Cheng scratched his head and took the horn out of the Backpack. Made from a giant bull’s horn, it boasted an ancient charm with a lot of metallic ornaments embedded on its surface, and in the gaps of some ornaments, one could vaguely see dried blood that had been there for ages.

"Three uses, each requiring a bottle of fine wine aged over ten years. Considering the condition is to have killed more than ten enemies in a battle, it seems that this horn probably comes from a priest of a Nordic Thunder God."

Muttering to himself, Li Cheng earnestly put the horn back in its place. This item didn’t consume Spiritual Power, had a short Cooling Time, and could be used in any environment. Most crucially, it had a limited number of uses—meaning its power must be greater than non-consumable items of the same quality. It definitely wasn’t any worse than the Cloud Burst Bomb provided by Will.

The last task reward was an Emergency Escape Card.

Li Cheng flipped his palm, and a card the size of a bank card made of hard material appeared out of thin air; it was pitch black and shone with various colors under the light, fully embodying the phrase "a dazzling array of black."

He gently bent the card and found that even with his Strength attribute of 9, he couldn’t make the card bend. "Wait a minute, isn’t this thing harder than the special drill bits used to dig through thousands of meters of rock layers? If I collect a few dozen of these cards and stick them together, wouldn’t they make an indestructible weapon?"