Chapter 3: Monsters in the Cemetery
The sky was covered with dark clouds, a gray-black fog, and a huge black shadow gradually emerged from the mist.
It was a mysterious island, most of which was obscured by this thick mist, like an unspeakable monster standing in the unknown and darkness.
【Black Kirishim, a forgotten island】
[It's isolated from the rest of the world, and you can't see it on the world map]
After Chu Ge was sucked into the mirror, the scene in front of him became a cutscene of the game, and he was now viewing the whole picture from the perspective of God.
There was a ship moving slowly in the thick fog, and a man was standing in the bow. Chu Ge was surprised to find that it was himself, or his character in the game.
His character looked at the mysterious island in the distance, and something seemed to swim quickly on the dark water, and when he looked at it, it was gone.
As the ship docks at the docks, his game character finally lands on this eerie island.
[The investigators were ordered by their superiors to come to Black Kirishima to investigate a secret organization]
In the picture, a man in a black cloak with a black mask on his face with white octopus tentacles-like lines on the mask attacks Chu Ge's game character from behind, causing him to faint to the ground.
[But soon you are attacked by a mysterious person, and when you wake up, you find yourself taken to an eerie place.] 】
The withered trees looked like ghosts, crows flew through the air, and the wind in my ears seemed to whisper undead spirits.
The fog was pervasive, and the moonlight was obscured by the fog. In this mist, you can faintly see the eerie tombstones.
Here, it is a cemetery.
You must escape, for there is a terrible danger waiting for you in the darkness......
By the end of the cutscene, Chu Ge has gained control of the game's character, and his perspective has changed from a bystander to a first-person.
【Beginner Training Task Begins】
[Requirements: Find a way to escape from the cemetery]
Hearing the system news, Chu Ge's brows furrowed slightly.
Since it is a novice mission, the difficulty of the task should not be too great.
He saw the cemetery fence not far away, and those iron railings more than ten meters high enclosed the entire cemetery.
The top of the railing had sharp pointings, and he tried to see if he could climb out.
But he looked at the iron tips, which even had traces of blood. I touched my ass again, but I still dismissed the idea.
Forget it, it looks like it hurts.
At the same time, some information appeared in the upper left corner of his line of sight.
At the top is a red energy bar: 100%
[Health, shown as a percentage.] When the health is 0%, the player will die, and when the health is below 5%, they will enter a near-death state.
Underneath your health is a yellow energy bar
[Sanity value, limited by percentage.] When sanity is 0%, the player will die]
Unlike the games Chu Ge has played, sanity is a setting unique to Nightmare Games.
As sanity decreases, the player's mental state will also change, and illusions will appear in front of them.
Less than 50% will hallucinate and lose self-awareness. Less than 20% will go into madness. If the player's sanity is less than 20%, they are basically completely insane.
There is also a green circle underneath health and sanity.
[Stamina is displayed as a percentage.] When the stamina value reaches zero, the player will enter a forced rest state and wait for all the stamina to recover.
In nightmare games, running, climbing, dodging, and fighting with weapons consume stamina.
Once you enter the forced rest state, you will not be able to dodge the enemy's attacks, so you must always pay attention to the amount of physical strength.
【Investigator Skill Unlocked】
【Explorer Skill Unlocked】
Immediately after that, the system message rang again.
In the Nightmare game, all classes start with three starting skills. Two active skills and one passive skill.
[Vision: Active Skill: Vision: Vision: Vision, which allows players to see things that they can't see before, and is used to find enemies or crises, the lower the sanity value, the stronger the ability of Vision, but it will also be more dangerous. 】
[Dodge: Active Skill: You can dodge enemy attacks, the higher your stamina, the faster the speed of dodging]
[Stealth: Passive Skill: When hiding enemies and monsters, there is a chance that you will not be detected.] 】
In addition to the starting skills of all of these classes, each class will have a unique skill.
[Compass: An explorer's exclusive skill that can guide you and find items]
Chu Ge took out the compass, only to see that the needle of the compass began to rotate, and after turning around, the red arrow stopped and pointed to the depths of the fog in front of him.
If it were an ordinary player, he might follow the guidance of the compass, but Chu Ge was different.
Ordinary people should follow the direction of the compass and walk straight ahead, through the center of the cemetery, to the opposite side of the cemetery, and maybe find an exit.
But he felt it was a trap.
Because if you just go through the fog, not to mention whether you will encounter monsters, it is easy to get lost even if you have a compass.
And his intuition told him that this cemetery must not be simple, and maybe there was something terrible waiting for him in the fog.
So he thought of another way......
That is to go against the iron railing at the edge of the cemetery.
There are few tombstones on the edges, and the exit from the cemetery is definitely connected to the fence.
Even if he walked around the edge of the cemetery, he would eventually find the gate to leave.
Once he had made up his mind, he made his way along the fence at the edge of the cemetery, where the fog made the surrounding visibility very low.
"Looks like I guessed right. ”
Chu Ge smiled slightly, the fog on the edge of the cemetery was much thinner, and he could see the road in front of him clearly.
In this way, Chu Ge had only been walking for a few minutes, and he saw the gate of the cemetery from a distance, the gate was blocked by fog, and he could vaguely see that the door was open.
This is the exit of the cemetery.
Suddenly, in the investigator's skills, the skill icon representing the vision began to shine. Chu Ge sensed that something was wrong, and he immediately turned on the "Spiritual Vision"!
When Chu Ge turned on his spiritual vision, the scene in front of him became gray, and not far from the gate of the cemetery, he saw a red figure.
The fog around him was dissipating, and the moon appeared in the sky, illuminating a tombstone not far away.
One side of the tombstone was missing a corner with deep paw prints, as if it had been scratched by something.
There were a lot of rubble on the ground, and the red figure was lying in front of the tombstone.
Chu Ge's expression changed slightly, I'll go, fortunately I didn't rush over just now, otherwise I would probably bump into it.
【Beginner Training Mission Update】
[Mission requirements: Sneak out of the cemetery gate without being discovered by monsters]
Hearing the system news, Chu Ge breathed a sigh of relief, the task requirements seemed to be very simple, anyway, the monster was sleeping, just be careful not to wake it up.
He withdrew from his psychic state and walked cautiously forward.
The monster was very close to the gate, and Chu Ge was worried that his footsteps would wake up the monster, so he squatted down and slowly advanced in a stealthy posture.
Chu Ge looked at the sleeping monster as he walked, and a hideous face could be faintly seen in the mist, its eyes closed, still asleep.
But the monster's head was so close to him that the heat was almost squirting into his face.
He swallowed softly, and then said silently in his heart:
You can't see me, you can't see me......