"WHAT kind of mystery did Brother Ze solved?" Luo Yan asked, calling Bai Ze"s attention just so he would stop bickering with Su Yuqi.
It was successful because he did get his attention. Bai Ze walked back to the long table and sat back on the seat he sat on before. "It"s a serial murder mystery."
Luo Yan immediately became interested. "Really? What kind of serial murder?"
Luo Jin and Su Yuqi seemed to be also interested because the two walked to the long table and also sat down. As if ready to listen to Bai Ze"s story.
"It"s a serial murder that happened in a high school. The mystery was how that whole serial murder happened," Bai Ze started. "The whole task was actually quite fu—I mean, messed up," he corrected, remembering that his two cousins were both still minors. As their older cousin, cussing loudly wouldn"t be a good example to them.
"How messed up?" Luo Yan asked.
"It all started with the death of a girl who was a student there. She was killed by four male teachers and was buried at the back of the teaching building." Bai Ze didn"t mention that the girl was probably r.a.p.ed too. "Everyone thought she was an orphan and that her aunt was her only family. But she had a younger brother who, five years later, enrolled at the same school. He was adopted by a different family so he had a different surname than the girl. No one suspected that he was related to that girl who suddenly disappeared five years ago."
"Let me guess, he killed those four teachers as revenge?" Luo Jin asked with with a bit of a lazy tone, as if he already know where the story was going.
"Yes, he killed them. Chopped them to pieces and scattered their remains all over the school. But he didn"t stop there. One of his cla.s.smates found his sister"s diary. Afraid that she would connect everything to him, he tried to kill her during the night of the test of courage their whole cla.s.s was doing. And that"s when I arrived at the door, during the test of courage," Bai Ze continued.
"Well, at least there wasn"t any monster trying to eat you while you"re in there," Luo Jin said.
If you based it on that, Bai Ze really got it easy. Since there"s only one boss in the door he was in. But in Luo Yan"s opinion, that kind of psychological task had its own set of difficulties.
"Who was the one who writes the script of these kind of events anyway?" Luo Jin added.
"Moonlight Media has their own department involved in those. They write the background stories for important NPCs and also the story behind hidden events and any kind of events that needed a storyline," Su Yuqi answered.
"Maybe the people in that department need to attend some psychological counseling. Seriously, the stories they"re writing was like something someone with an unhealthy state of mind would write."
Bai Ze laughed at what Luo Jin said. Because it was true in some cases. There was a number of task and hidden events which included those kind of gory and unpleasant storylines. But that was also the reason why those tasks had higher quality rewards. He turned to Shen Ji Yun. "Hear that? Xiao Jin thinks your uncle"s company"s writers are mental."
Shen Ji Yun looked at the gnome. "They"re not mental. They just have overactive imagination."
Luo Jin snorted. "Yeah, right."
Luo Yan had the same sentiments. With all the task he"d known, some even experienced, since he played this VR version, he could say that those writers definitely had some issues.
"Brother Ji Yun, does the game not have any kind of parental control?" he asked.
That"s one of the thing he"d been wondering. Considering all the blood and the gore, it would definitely be unhealthy for kids to play this game. It might leave them psychological shadows that wouldn"t be erased even after they became an a.d.u.l.t.
"It does. Children below the age of 10 couldn"t play the game. And those that are 10-16 have the cradle version of the VR helmet. In that version, anything that has gore would be mosaicked. Even the blood that would fall from players, NPCs, and monsters would appear like they were pearl droplets," Shen Ji Yun explained.
Well, at least Moonlight Media was still responsible in some way. That"s what Luo Yan thought.
Bai Ze was kind of surprised seeing this expressionless friend of his said so many words in one go. He was even patient in explaining everything to Luo Yan. But Bai Ze was glad, at least he didn"t need to worry that Shen Ji Yun would be like an emotionless block of ice in front of his cousins.
Then he suddenly realized something based on the conversation just now. He turned sharply to Luo Jin. "Xiao Jin, aren"t you only 16 this year. Are you playing using the cradle version of the helmet?"
Su Yuqi slightly glanced at Luo Jin when she heard what Bai Ze said. She didn"t expect that he was only 16. He truly was a kid.
"No," Luo Jin didn"t hesitate to answer. "And there"s no use telling me to switch." Although he didn"t like his game avatar, he"d rather continue playing as a gnome than play a game with mosaic. "Besides I"m turning 17 soon anyway. So, what"s the use?"
[Ah Jin, let me have my birthday first before you say that you"ll turn 17 soon. Did you already forget that your second brother is still 17 himself?] Luo Yan thought that they were both given the normal version of the VR helmet because their father"s a.s.sistant didn"t bother to check anything about the game when he bought the VR helmet for them. If he did, their father would definitely not allow them, especially him, to play the game that easily. Luo Yan should probably thank the a.s.sistant for his moment of carelessness.
To change the topic, Luo Yan decided to take out the Little Ancestor that"s still inside the incubator. As he expected, it garnered the attention of his four team mates.
"That"s the beast egg you said you got from your Origin Village, right?" Bai Ze asked, staring at the egg interestingly.
"Yes," Luo Yan answered and then he also took out the [Ambrosia Pod] he received from the even yesterday.
He placed it beside the incubator. Then suddenly the pod opened. A kind of sweet fragrance filled the air when it did. After that, it slowly got bigger. And when it was the size of the incubator, Luo Yan lifted the incubator and put it inside. Then the pod automatically closed. It began to emit some kind of green light.
"What"s that?" Bai Ze couldn"t help asking.
"It"s an item that could quicken the hatching time of the egg," Luo Yan said, not removing his gaze from the closed pod.
Soon, the green light being emitted by the pod slowly disappeared. After that the pod decayed at a speed visible to the n.a.k.e.d eye. Until nothing remained but the incubator inside.
Luo Yan immediately checked the status of his Little Ancestor.
Unknown Egg
- Status of Hatching: 70%
- Current Health Meter: Extremely Healthy
- Current Mood Meter: Extremely Satisfied
So, you"re finally satisfied huh? This Little Ancestor. 70% state of hatching. This meant that by next month, this egg would finally hatch. When he put Mana to the egg yesterday, it was only at 20%. But because of the [Ambrosia Pod], it jumped directly to 70. He couldn"t help but feel excited.
Luo Yan lifted the incubator and stared at the egg inside. [For all the Mana you"ve eaten, you definitely, definitely should be as amazing as your master.]
The egg inside moved a bit. As if saying [Yes, Master! I definitely will!]