northernbook Chapter 1502 An Impossible Mission, Ineffective Abilities + Useless Ghost Money
Chapter 1502 An Impossible Mission, Ineffective Abilities + Useless Ghost Money
Chen Mu and Xiao Ye worked diligently, each responsible for five hundred newspapers.
After flipping through dozens of pages, Chen Mu looked up at the time; five minutes had already passed.
There were almost no useful clues among these dozens of newspapers.
Xiao Ye, who was working nearby, was engrossed in her work, flipping through the newspaper so fast it was almost sparking.
In such a race against time, Chen Mu knew that he absolutely could not afford to lose his composure.
Chen Mu began to slow down, drawing some of his energy to analyze the current situation.
Chen Mu and Xiao Ye now need to fill out 1001 newspapers.
The first newspaper depicted a city of extreme peace and harmony, including various details, even the temperature and sunlight.
The subsequent 1000 newspapers were all in-depth explorations of the city, including various interviews conducted within it. They were filled with a wealth of detail, even capturing the interviewers' facial expressions and gestures.
However, the location of the interview conducted by Mirror Link was a city embroiled in war and on the verge of destruction.
Following the normal line of thought, Chen Mu and his companion should first look for clues and save the city within thirty minutes.
This step is very difficult, as there are likely no clues in the newspapers, and we will have to search in the city.
With the help of props, the two of them would have to search for ages, covered in soot, before they could even manage to stop it. And that would be the best-case scenario.
After the rescue, the second step is to restore the war-torn city to a peaceful and harmonious state.
Only in this way can the interview work officially begin.
The time required for the second step is simply unimaginable.
The city is filled with tens of thousands of soldiers and refugees. Many of them may even harbor deep-seated hatred and blood feuds.
Even if Chen Mu has a large amount of supplies, he may not be able to restore peace in a short period of time.
This step will require a lot of effort and at least a month. It could take even longer, perhaps a year or two.
Even though everything went smoothly, Chen Muzhen successfully restored the city within a month.
So, is that all? No, this is just the beginning!
Interviewing a thousand newspapers is another huge challenge.
For Chen Mu to pass the level, he cannot make a single mistake on any of the thousand newspapers.
Even if you receive the editor-in-chief's mysterious teachings, you still have to do it one page at a time.
Chen Mu calculated that, in a 24-hour day, it would take about 2 hours to interview someone about a newspaper.
Even if I didn't eat, drink, or sleep all day, I could only manage to read six newspapers.
If it's 1000 newspapers, that would take more than 100 days of work, or five months!
He worked tirelessly, without sleep or rest, for five consecutive months.
The entire process, including restoring the city, will take seven or eight months.
For Chen Mu right now, this is almost an impossible task!
Because outside the Underworld Post Office, Chen Mu's own Watching Over the River had reached a crucial stage.
Chen Mu must complete the game as soon as possible and collect all ten Hell Fragments.
For Chen Mu, spending seven or eight months in the Underworld Post Office was unacceptable.
According to conventional thinking, let's not even talk about whether there will be any mistakes in the process of working non-stop for several months.
Even if everything goes smoothly, it would still be an impossible task for Chen Mu in terms of time!
Chen Mu took a deep breath to calm himself down.
For other players, spending seven or eight months to gradually clear the eerie scenes at the "Ghostly Lord" level would indeed be worthwhile.
In terms of difficulty and complexity, it also meets the definition of the Ghostly Sovereign level.
But for Chen Mu, this was unacceptable.
So how exactly do you complete the game quickly within an acceptable timeframe?
Chen Mu didn't think that this notoriously difficult newspaper boss would leave him a shortcut to a quick victory.
According to unspoken rules, as long as the BOSS leaves a way out that is passable, it fits the design of a bizarre scene.
As for how difficult it will be and how long it will take to find a way out, that depends entirely on the BOSS's design capabilities.
For example, the previous "Flesh and Blood Factory" was a bizarre scene of the level of the Ghost Master, but it was designed by the Ghost General, whose cognitive abilities could not keep up with the Ghost Master.
Therefore, in Chen Mu's eyes, the survival strategy of the [Flesh and Blood Factory] was full of flaws. It was something that could be seen through at a glance.
However, the newspaper's boss, as can be seen from "The Death Postman," is a very cunning and eccentric individual.
The difficulty of the bizarre mission design is no less than that of some mysterious sects.
Such a boss, in the final level [Netherworld Post Office], naturally adopts the approach of "long time + intense confrontation + digging traps".
It did not rely on a single sentence or wordplay to find a way out.
Instead, it breaks down one large path to survival into thousands of smaller paths.
By offering large portions and unlimited food, they whittled down Chen Mu's energy and judgment.
At the same time, these seemingly insignificant paths also conceal numerous traps. For example, preventing the destruction of a city within half an hour presents many difficulties and pitfalls.
Chen Mu sighed. What troubled him most were these kinds of bizarre, protracted missions.
He was now certain that this strange boss would not leave him any shortcuts.
To conquer this bizarre scene, you have to tackle this tough challenge! There's no easy way to beat it with just a few words.
At this moment, Chen Mu looked at Xiao Ye.
Ten minutes had passed, and Xiaoye's hands were trembling as she flipped through the pages. She was frantically reciting the contents to herself, and she was almost driven crazy by the torment.
In this way, Xiaoye had only read less than a hundred newspapers.
It's simply impossible to quickly browse through 500 images in half an hour.
Chen Mu stepped forward and patted Xiao Ye on the shoulder, "Thank you for your hard work, you don't need to look anymore."
Based on Chen Mu's thinking, it's impossible that the newspaper boss would leave the two of them a shortcut to quickly pass the level.
This means that to prevent the city's destruction, one must go to the city in person. Amidst the gunfire and ruins, among the rubble, search for clues to stop the nuclear war.
Instead of waiting at the table, hoping the boss will leave an Easter egg and that the solution can be found in the newspaper.
Chen Mu explained the current situation, including his analysis, to Xiao Ye.
Xiaoye nodded in silence, knowing that they had likely encountered a tough opponent this time.
"Boss, what should we do now?"
Xiaoye realized that although she could do a good job at the execution level, when faced with such a chaotic situation, the boss still had to step in to take charge.
Chen Mu said, "This is a tough nut to crack, but we brought our own tools. We can't follow the usual procedures, otherwise we can't afford to waste time."
There is experience in solving this kind of problem.
I've encountered this same predicament before when doing bizarre missions.
At this point, Chen Mu's thoughts drifted back to not long ago, to the time at [Blood Night Company].
Doing a lot of bizarre missions broadens your horizons, and that's one of the advantages—no matter how outrageous the situation, you won't panic because you've experienced it yourself.
At Blood Night Company, Chen Mu also had to deal with the outrageous workload assigned by the BOSS.
If you were to do it yourself, it would take just as much time as it would take the Underworld Post Office.
However, at that time, Chen Mu took a different approach.
He used the ring and the blood-red note to summon reinforcements from the watchtower over the river, thus solving the problem.
Bloody little note!
Chen Mu thought that when faced with an absurd predicament, he could summon countless reinforcements through the blood-red note.
In this situation, could I do the same?
Chen Mu couldn't help but get excited, and he began to follow this line of thought and deduce further.
However, after only a few steps of deduction, Chen Mu frowned.
First and foremost is the most pressing issue: the impending destruction of the city.
He could indeed use the blood-red note to summon reinforcements from the Watchtower over the river. However, the arrival of reinforcements would take time.
Even if a powerful being, with reinforcements, were to traverse space to reach the entrance, it would still take at least several hours.
Only fifteen minutes remain before the city is destroyed.
Totally too late!
Using blood-red notes to control the people in the city and make them give up nuclear war?
That's not very realistic either, because to distribute the blood-red slips of paper, Chen Mu would first need to know who to distribute them to.
Who controls nuclear weapons in the city? Who is the key figure in a nuclear war?
Chen Mu knew nothing about it.
Going to the city to investigate now, even fifteen minutes might not be enough time.
The blood-red note, which was usually so effective, turned out to be of little use here.
Chen Mu strongly suspected that the newspaper boss was aware of his abilities. That's why he specifically targeted the blood-red note's abilities when designing the bizarre mission.
Since they can't use the blood-red note, the only way to stop the nuclear war is through the combined efforts of Chen Mu and his companion.
Enter the city, use tools, investigate clues, and prevent destruction...
If you use a lucky lock, the whole process can be completed in 15 minutes.
Preventing destruction is just the beginning.
In subsequent cities undergoing rectification, can they use blood-red little notes themselves?
Give each person a bizarre task and make them do what they're supposed to do...
To achieve the harmonious city depicted in the newspapers, Chen Mu needs to assign specific tasks to everyone to prevent chaos.
There must be at least tens of thousands of people in the city.
They distributed tens of thousands of blood-red slips of paper, assigning each person a bizarre task. These tasks, when combined, still had to keep the city functioning normally, appearing harmonious and beautiful.
The difficulty and workload involved are by no means low.
In particular, distributing the blood-red slips of paper required the use of an ancient gold seal. With so many people, could one person possibly manage to distribute them all?
Even if the distribution is complete...
The final step of the interviews, involving the workload of thousands of newspapers, was something Chen Mu and his colleague had to handle head-on.
The entire process would take at least three months.
From this perspective, the blood-red note could reduce the workload, but it couldn't meet Chen Mu's requirements.
He needs to be quick! The faster the better!
You must clear the [Underworld Post Office] within seven days at most.
Blood-red notes won't do, so how about ghost money?
Do the people in this city like ghost money?
Even if you like distributing the ghost money yourself, you still have to tell each person what they should do. You also have to prevent anyone from taking the ghost money but not doing their job properly.
In fact, when you think about it, it's no less difficult than the Crimson Little Paper.
After analyzing the situation, Chen Mu was shocked to discover that the ability of the blood-red note that he had always relied on was actually ineffective here.
Not only that, but the massive amount of ghost money that I was so proud of also became useless here!
Ineffective abilities, useless ghost money...
Chen Mu couldn't help but suspect that the newspaper boss had deliberately designed the eerie "Underworld Post Office" scene specifically for him.
I'm being targeted!
More importantly, this bizarre boss is actually capable.
It can actually design bizarre scenarios that suppress its own strengths, all while targeting itself.
Chen Mu took a deep breath; he had to admit that he was feeling the pressure.
Among the top ten eerie scenes at the level of Ghost Lord/Governor, only this BOSS truly understands himself and knows best how to restrain his opponent!
It's a truly formidable opponent; I've met my match.
How should I respond to such an opponent?
Having lost the trump card of the blood-red note and the ghost money, am I really going to have to spend months of painstaking progress to complete the game?
At the same time, deep down, Chen Mu was also very confused.
According to a long time ago, the newspaper boss was from the friendly faction.
Chen Mu still trusted Jing She Zhi Zun quite a bit, regarding him as one of the core executives.
It was precisely because of his trust in the Supreme Luxury that Chen Mu placed the newspaper office as the last scene when challenging the ten scenarios, thinking that he could easily and quickly pass the level.
But things didn't go as planned. This newspaper boss was the one who understood him best and knew how to deal with him.
Moreover, the newspaper boss didn't act friendly at all.
This is such a high-level attack on oneself; it looks like a fight to the death.
Why would the Heavenly Stems be reversed?
Could it be that the information from the Supreme Being of Extravagance is wrong? Or is the Supreme Being of Extravagance playing some kind of trick?
Chen Mu believed that, based on his "ability to judge people," the Supreme Being should be very loyal.
Chen Mu felt the probability of something being wrong with the "Extravagant Supreme" brand was very low.
From the moment they arrived at the [Luxury Resort], the brand had already made its choice and stood on its own side.
After spending so much time together, if someone had intended to rebel or harm him, Chen Mu would have noticed long ago.
If there's nothing wrong with the Supreme Being of Extravagance, then the Supreme Being of Extravagance has been deceived and received incorrect information.
No, based on Chen Mu's understanding of him, the information about the Supreme Being of Extraordinary Luxury was very accurate.
Especially with this kind of intelligence, if one isn't certain, even the most extravagant person wouldn't make such a confident claim, and would remind themselves of it.
Throughout the entire ordeal, the Supreme Being of Extravagance never offered any warnings. This indicates that in his mind, the Supreme Being of Extravagance was quite certain that the newspaper's boss was in a friendly camp that favored Chen Mu.
So why is the newspaper boss so different from what the intelligence reports?
This left Chen Mu extremely confused and puzzled.
Right now, finding a way to pass the level quickly is the most important thing.
If Chen Mu can clear the level, he will be able to meet the boss behind it all. At that time, the power will be in Chen Mu's hands.
Just then, Chen Mu suddenly heard Xiao Ye's somewhat serious voice.
"Boss, I've taken a closer look at these newspapers. I think we might be in trouble."