Serial Player
Chapter 881 - 539 Cargo

Chapter 881: Chapter 539 Cargo

Late at night, Zhao Jiu left the SUV.

At this moment, she had already changed into her battle gear.

She was clad in a yellow raincoat, with red leather gloves on her hands. Hidden beneath the raincoat was a short flag.

All these were Epic Level equipment prepared for her by Mr. All-known. The yellow raincoat was actually made from thousands of talismans, enabling Zhao Jiu to unleash various abilities at the fastest speed. It also offered various defensive effects. With this raincoat, even amidst a hail of bullets, she could emerge unscathed.

The red gloves possessed the ability to grasp Spirit Bodies, and could also enhance Zhao Jiu’s hand attacks and abilities with damage against the Mysterious System.

Then, there was the short flag, the Summoning Flag. It could be used as a melee weapon to swing around, distorting the surrounding air.

Moreover, it could summon a powerful ally for five minutes once within 24 hours.

All of these were rare pieces of fine equipment. As a player not yet at LV10, Zhao Jiu’s gear was already excessively luxurious.

Theoretically, she could even face an Instance boss-level Abnormality on her own without falling into a disadvantage, and she might possibly have the potential to defeat it solo.

But as she herself had said, she indeed lacked fighting experience.

Sometimes she found it difficult to unleash her full strength, perhaps due to over-reliance on her equipment.

For this reason, Zhao Jiu had been trying to vanquish Abnormalities using her own strength during this period.

This was a path that players must take, those who were elevated to high levels by external forces once they lose protection, their outcomes tend not to be very good.

Using the cover of night, Zhao Jiu avoided the villagers’ gaze and quietly made her way to the employee dormitory.

With a light tap of her toes on the wall, her figure skimmed across the walls of the employee dormitory as if weightless, grabbing onto the window of the third floor to flip inside.

She began her cautious inspection of the employee dormitory, not seeing the Chang Ghost on any of the employees, which meant it could still be hiding somewhere within the dormitory.

She quietly checked each room, activating her Yin and Yang eyes to carefully observe the traces left by the Chang Ghost.

Unexpectedly, the rooms were quite normal, with the employees’ personal belongings and clothes neatly arranged.

It didn’t seem like the messy dormitory one would expect, but rather gave the impression of being ready to pick up and flee at any moment.

Due to a certain amount of Black Fog permeating each room, the inspection was rather challenging for Zhao Jiu, yet she still managed to find some oddities.

From previous inquiries, she learned that all the employees living here were adult males, but among the clothes in the room, Zhao Jiu spotted several pieces of women’s clothing of differing sizes, as well as some children’s items.

Zhao Jiu felt curious, thinking that women’s clothing could at least be explained by someone having a penchant for cross-dressing. But what about these children’s items and clothes?

"Employee families?" she wondered. "But I hadn’t heard of employees’ families living here before." Zhao Jiu looked at the clothes, "Are these gifts for family members?"

Without any leads, Zhao Jiu continued searching the rooms.

Now, with the employee dormitory empty and the villagers all asleep, if she could completely kill off the Chang Ghost now, nothing would be better.

As a result, Zhao Jiu spent several hours turning almost every room upside down without catching a glimpse of the Chang Ghost or triggering any Task.

"It seems the Chang Ghost had returned to the Ghost Eel’s domain before I got here. Now, I’ll have to find him in the factory." Zhao Jiu looked at the gradually brightening sky and quietly left the employee dormitory.

She returned to her SUV to rest and recover. A night’s search had left her somewhat exhausted.

Afterward, she took some food out of the [Backpack] to eat.

Players, whether out on an excursion or in the plot world, should always eat and drink what they’ve prepared themselves.

Because even players can be poisoned by those seemingly ordinary drugs.

"Don’t think that becoming a player makes you invulnerable to all poisons. You should know that some powerful players have died at the hands of ordinary people after being drugged,"

Mr. All-known had warned about this time and again. Zhao Jiu remembered this very well. The cases collected by the officials had truly frightened her.

Therefore, she simply decided to rest in the vehicle.

Compared to staying in these guesthouses, this modified off-road vehicle was more secure.

She planned to recover some energy before going undercover in the factory to select the hidden Chang Ghost.

At this moment, Zhao Jiu didn’t know that, while she was hiding in the car waiting to regain her energy,

several tourists staying in the guesthouses had already taken notice of her.

They were train passengers who had come for the ghost train, some with their own cargo, some with various objectives, all coincidentally converging in Ruhua Village.

Since backstabbing among passengers could occur, they were cautiously watching every move in Ruhua Village.

Zhao Jiu’s actions might not have been noticed by the villagers,

but to the ever-vigilant players around, they were not hidden at all.

In the second-floor room of a guesthouse, a man around thirty years old was looking out the window at the off-road vehicle not far away.

He was one of the passengers who had gathered here—LV10 White Deer.

He and his teammates had disguised themselves as tourists to come to Ruhua Village, specifically to board the ghost train that night.

"She’s probably not one of the passengers, and might not even know that this is a ghost train platform," White Deer said softly. "In this environment, she shouldn’t expose her player identity."

At this moment, Ruhua Village had definitely more than ten players present, and all were carefully on guard.

As Zhao Jiu was not an assassin player and had no knowledge of the true situation in Ruhua Village, her actions had been noted by almost all the players present.

"What? You want her?" teased a female player in the room with a chuckle. "I can help you with that, I quite like that girl’s skin as well."

"Ha..." White Deer shook his head and replied, "Save it. This woman obviously has been lured here by the device’s controller on purpose. I’m no Crownless King; I don’t have the confidence to compete with an unknowable player organization over prey."

Although he did not know the full extent of the player organization’s strength, he knew what they were selling on the train.

It was a shell made from the bodies of dead players, which allowed spirit abnormalities or symbiotic bodies of a spectral nature to freely control the body.

And within that body, the symbiotic entities could exhibit their full strength.

Players who possessed symbiotic bodies, even those who were not human, were all in dire need of that merchandise.

And a player organization with such strength was not something an average player could contend with. He had no desire to be turned into a shell.

"Lured here on purpose?" The female player was startled and said, "So you’re saying this girl has something on her that’s caught their interest? Could it be a rare Magic Eye or a special constitution? Or is it simply a plan to sell off her player identity?"

"Hey, won’t we find out tonight?" White Deer chuckled. "She’ll soon be turned into merchandise."