Abyss God! Activate!

【Player Nickname: Pending Death#9527】

【Player Level: Lv0 (Gain one freely distributable attribute point per level-up)】

【Strength: 10 (Top-tier professional boxer level)】

【Constitution: 10 (Top-tier long-distance runner level)】

【Agility: 10 (Top-tier parkour athlete level)】

【Intelligence: 11 (This is no ordinary individual, but long-term neurosis makes the system somewhat suspicious of this evaluation)】

【Mental Strength: 35 (The average value is 5, with a maximum of 10 for a normal person. Are you really human?)】

【Charisma: 5 (Handsome and pleasant-looking, but your bizarre behavior is causing your Charisma to continuously decrease)】

Wu Wang couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

How could a mere game panel start making snide remarks about my face and behavior?

Could it have an independent consciousness?

Without the slightest hesitation, Wu Wang slowly bent down and stripped himself bare. In the dark space, there was no one to appreciate the sharp lines of his chiseled muscles.

Then, he began to perform calisthenics all by himself.

His gun muzzle danced, aiming everywhere.

About ten minutes later, he glanced at his personal panel again and discovered that a certain value had changed.

【Charisma: 4 (What the fuck are you doing! Have you no propriety or shame? No civility? Goddamn bastard!)】

"Okay, so it really does have some level of consciousness. This is getting fun."

Wu Wang put his pants back on with a deadpan expression.

"Is the AI evolving on its own, or is some biological consciousness taking over this system?"

But no matter how he called out into the dark space after that, no voice answered him. It seemed the existence of this consciousness was still a subtle matter.

Wu Wang didn't continue trying to trigger it. Instead, he looked down at the rest of the information on his personal panel.

【Item Bar: Gao Shan High School Uniform】

【Skill Bar: Shadow Mutual Combat Art, Vision of Truth】

"Hm? What the hell are these skills?"

Wu Wang ignored the strange school uniform in his inventory for the moment, instead curiously clicking open the descriptions for the two baffling skills.

【Shadow Mutual Combat Art (Active): You can swap any part of your body between substance and shadow, consuming 5 Spiritual Energy per second. No cooldown. (Player Spiritual Energy Value = Mental Strength Points × 10)】

【Remark: I'm counting on you, my other self!】

This shadow-related skill must have been obtained from the previous Instance. When he was forcibly logged out, Wu Wang had also heard the sound of a hidden condition being met.

In that problematic Instance, which was full of bugs and offered no way out, the hidden condition was most likely catching the ghost.

After all, that was supposed to be impossible.

【Vision of Truth (Passive): This will allow you to see through to a certain truth, twisting false things and quests into their true forms.】

【Remark: %@&# is watching you in the Abyss.】

【Oh God! I'm starting to understand everything!】

Twisting the original quest provided by the Instance.

And it was a damn passive skill, to boot.

This didn't sound like good news.

"This damn skill is basically a curse from that pervy Lord Cthulhu, right? And it's watching me from some Abyss?"

Wu Wang retorted with a strange expression.

"Are you the Abyss God?"

It was a pity he hadn't experienced any other Instances yet. He wasn't very clear on what these so-called twisted quests were all about.

Wu Wang decided to look at the other things on the panel first.

Whoosh!

With a thought, the Gao Shan High School Uniform from his item bar appeared in his hands.

He raised his eyebrows slightly with a surprised expression, not expecting an item from the item bar to appear out of thin air.

"I have a Storage Ring now! Too bad I'm missing an old grandpa who can set fires and teach me alchemy."

Wu Wang said with regret.

Since 【Shadow Mutual Combat Art】 was the Hidden Reward, this piece of clothing must be the so-called 【Compensation Reward】.

He turned it over to examine it. The school uniform was a bit worn, and both the school crest on the chest and the four characters for "Gao Shan High School" on the back were faded from washing. It was obvious that its original owner came from a family that wasn't well-off, unable to afford a new uniform and forced to wash this one repeatedly.

【Gao Shan High School Uniform: At twelve o'clock midnight, wear this and stand on any school campus to open a directional Instance.】

【Remark: Hide! Hide quickly! Don't let it see me!】

Wu Wang was a little surprised by this.

He thought it was some kind of defensive equipment, but it turned out to be a key to open a new Instance.

"As I thought, the sense of incongruity is still very strong…"

From the moment he entered the Novice Instance to Lord Cthulhu peeping at him with what looked like pink eye, Wu Wang had felt that something was off.

And now, seeing the school uniform's effect and remark, he finally understood where that sense of incongruity came from.

"There was too little information before. The identity of the 【Ghost】 was unknown, it was unclear why it hid in the shadows, and there was no reason for the classroom lights to flicker. Now I get it! It never belonged to that Instance in the first place!"

Wu Wang's mind spun rapidly.

Even the trashiest game companies in the real world know to include a game plot or set up a background story. At the very least, they should provide some character identities.

But that problematic Instance just now had nothing. You get randomly killed by the ghost as soon as you enter, and the condition for clearing it is also a dead-end, infinite loop.

It was as if the entire Instance's only purpose was to kill everyone.

Not even Hidetaka Miyazaki is this sadistic!

For a game as awesome as this Calamity Game, such a crude Instance shouldn't even exist.

Unless the lecture hall classroom and the 【Ghost】 were forcibly pieced together in the first place!

There was no connection between the two.

"The 【Ghost】 should have been part of Gao Shan High School, not that strange lecture hall classroom."

Wu Wang narrowed his eyes, sizing up the uniform in his hands. He had no way of knowing what caused this anomaly.

Or rather, if he wanted to figure it out, he would have to go to the so-called "Gao Shan High School" and investigate.

Thinking of this, Wu Wang couldn't help but give a faint smile.

"Heh, isn't this a pure and simple trap? Only an idiot would fall for it! Do I look like an idiot?"

An existence capable of changing an Instance's structure, whether it was the handiwork of a person or the effect of some item, was best for him not to get involved with at his current stage.

【Undying】 was not the same as being invincible.

It was far too easy to torture someone. For example, sealing him in a concrete barrel and sinking it to the bottom of the sea. The moment he revived, he would suffocate and die, in an infinite loop.

In that situation, 【Undying】 would become a true source of suffering, a state where he could neither live nor die.

Swish!

Just as he finished his taunt, his right hand suddenly rose, beyond his control.

The Red Vertical Pupil on the inside of his wrist stared straight into Wu Wang's eyes.

Whispers began to echo inside his skull. His consciousness began to sink and twist, and his skin itched as if it were about to sprout organs that didn't belong to him.

Wu Wang reacted instantly and looked away.

But in his daze, he still saw the Red Vertical Pupil blink at him.

The next second, he felt something sticky on his hands. He looked down.

The school uniform, which had been washed until it was faded, had changed. Now, it was covered in all sorts of colorful filth, as if it had been thrown into a dyeing vat and stirred about randomly.

The most prominent color was red.

A foul, metallic stench wafted out, assaulting his nostrils and making Wu Wang frown subconsciously. The familiar sensation in his hands and his years of experience with suicide allowed him to make an instant judgment.

The red wasn't paint.

It was blood.

Moreover, it was old blood that had been sitting for a long time.

Most crucially, the uniform's panel description had also changed.

【Bloodstained School Uniform: The holder must arrive at any school campus within 24 hours and put on this clothing.】

【Remark: I was caught by it, and now it's your turn… Run!】

【If the quest is not completed within the time limit, the Instance will descend upon the person closest to you.】

【Target Locked: Wu Xiaoyou】

Pak!

Wu Wang's fist clenched violently, the sound sharp and sudden. His fingernails dug deep into the flesh of his palm, a clear sign of the extreme turmoil in his emotions.

Because the person this name represented... had just prepared "chicken stewed with mushrooms" instant noodles for him on the dining table not long ago.

She was Wu Wang's second sister.

And his only family in this world.

"You motherfucker! The Abyss God has activated, has it?"

Wu Wang's tone was laced with gritted-teeth fury.

He never would have imagined that the 【Vision of Truth】 provided by that damned Lord Cthulhu could actually twist an item.

And the damn skill was a 【Passive】, completely impossible to stop.

After taking a deep breath, his composure returned.

Wu Wang looked at the tattered school uniform in his hands, a vicious grin spreading across his face.

"You want to see me go look for trouble that badly?"

"Fine! Then open your damn dog eyes and watch clearly how I speedrun Gao Shan High School!"