At midnight in reality, whether in the storage room, in the personal center, or in the middle of the game script, all players receive a red-level system message at this moment. According to the content classification, the system message can be roughly divided into three levels: blue, orange, and red to show the importance and urgency of the content.

In this way, this message can be regarded as an urgent telegram, and its importance is self-evident. It reads as follows:

[Emergency Update Notes--New Game Mode Launched]

[The closed beta version 2.0 of "Hall of Strange Palace" has been updated, and the new 'Free Hunt' game mode is officially launched. So what are you waiting for, pick up your weapons, unleash your skills, and enjoy a hearty killing feast! 】

[Free Hunt Mode Introduction: Players can team up to enter the script of this mode to fight against other teams and individuals, destroy all hostile players or trigger and complete any of the hidden tasks of the script, and they can successfully pass the script. 】

[Tip 1: The number of teams for the script will be determined randomly, with a maximum of four teams and a maximum of five players per team.] Solo entry will also count as a team]

[Tip 2: The number of hidden tasks in the script is not fixed, and it is on a first-served basis.] You can choose to leave the playbook after completing multiple missions]

[Tip 3: After the script is completed, the number of kills and the number of hidden missions will be settled]

[Tip 4: Forcibly quitting this mode will be punished by a one-day ID ban]

[Happy playing!] 】

As soon as this news came out, the major public chat rooms exploded instantly, and everyone discussed around the various instructions of the 'free hunting' mode, most of which were about 'killing' and 'settlement rewards'.

"Ha, it's time to show my brother's true skills, let alone kill one, even if you fight ten!"

"The difficulty of this new mode is also relatively large, and I am afraid that the final settlement reward will be more generous than the normal mode!"

"Destroy all hostile players? No kidding, rather than being killed by others and not getting any benefits, it's better to find a hidden task to complete it, the new mode is really useless. ”

"Get out of the way if you are timid, you can see at a glance that this mode focuses on killing rather than clearing the level, don't stay here if you want to take advantage!"

"Forcibly quit the ID ban for one day, should the punishment be so severe?"

"Well, the overall feeling is quite interesting, it's useless to talk about it, guys, let's go and try it............"

After a while, the chat room was quiet again, and the eagerness of players to try out the new game mode was obvious.

In the personal center, a young man with short pale hair and about fourteen or fifteen years old showed a cold and arrogant smile slightly, his eyebrows were raised, and the surging murderous aura suddenly overflowed. The whole person was shrouded in silver-gray robes, adding a touch of mystery, like a death assassin walking on the edge of darkness.

"Hehe, this game is kind of interesting, I don't know who will be the first undead under my short blade............"

At the same time, on a tall building in the north of the Soul Gathering City, several bright lights flashed at the same time, and the surrounding air first rippled, and then a swirling white void unfolded. The stream of data slowly flowed out, and then condensed into the appearance of three humans.

At the head was a bald man with a large waist and a round waist, followed by two tall thin men with yellow and red hair. All three of them wore the necessary white uniforms for novice players, and the game names and titles on their heads were 'Strong Man Invincible - Smashing Master', 'Yellow Hair is also a Style - Thieves are also Crazy', and 'Red Bean Soup - Afraid of Dying Terminally Ill Patients'.

"There's not even a cutscene CG, do you want Lao Tzu to run around like a headless fly?" The strong man spat viciously on the ground, looking rather annoyed.

"Big brother, don't be angry, I'll just grab two NPCs and ask them later, the most important thing now is to find out the location of the other two teams first, so that we can start secretly." Red Bean hurriedly explained. And Huang Mao, who was silent on the side, couldn't help but nod.

"Well, that's fine, so do you have any suggestions?" The strong man continued to ask.

"Why don't the three of us go our separate ways, I'll grab my tongue, and find a foothold by the way, big brother, you and the yellow-haired brothers will take a turn around the neighborhood, find out the terrain first, and if you're lucky, you may be able to find out the whereabouts of other players." But remember, don't reveal your position. ”

After hearing this, the strong man couldn't help but laugh and said: "The military advisor has a lot of ideas, not bad." But soon his face returned to calm, and he said solemnly: "Since it has been decided, then............ Before the other players are officially in place, without further ado, let's get started and go! ”

Far away on the outskirts of the western part of the city, two strange figures suddenly appeared in a bleak maple forest. The wind swept by, and the figure seemed to exist like an ethereal nothingness, looming. It was only when a glimmer of light from the bright moon through the gap in the clouds fell on the two of them that their faces were revealed, and the silver-gray robe flashed in the moonlight, which was very strange.

"The moon is dark and the wind is high on the night of killing, heh, I didn't expect the system to be so close to people." The silver-robed young man couldn't help but sneer. The short-haired girl on the other side pouted and said dissatisfiedly: "Now is not the time for poetry, what to do next, you know better than me in your heart." ”

"Hey, that's .................. nature"

At this point, all the players who participated in the script of "City of Gathering Souls" in the free hunting mode, including Zhen Shifeng and Tianjian Bingxue, have arrived. Everyone must be wondering, how did Brother Feng and the Ice and Snow Girl strayed into the mode in advance, they appeared earlier than the official release of version 2.0, how did a hidden mission script become a normal script under the new mode? The reason is very simple, do you still remember the words left by Brother Pseudo Feng in "Haunted House Escape" before, "This interference may cause some unexpected results to the plot of the script, which can be regarded as a surprise for you." "That's right, it is precisely because of this interference that the script of "City of Gathering Souls", which is still in the process of being debugged, has a data correlation with the hidden task of the previous script.

However, this is not the most important thing, what is even more embarrassing is that the two of them mistakenly entered the new mode script that they should not have entered, and the data of the letter system was disordered, so they failed to receive the update notification information released by Zero in time. The entire apocalyptic world is still perpetuating the past and maintaining the so-called 'calm' on the surface, but in fact a greater danger is quietly looming.

A feast of intrigue and killing is about to begin!