Weirdness is coming: Chen Mu Nugui started with trillions of ghost coins

Chapter 1450 Mountain Village

Chen Mu shrugged. "Whenever things get difficult, I always have to make the decisions."

Chen Mu thought for a moment, "If it really doesn't work, then you can just take the letter. Anyway, the four of us are postmen, so it shouldn't be a big problem."

Let's not delay any longer. Affix the stamps and start the delivery process.

Listening to Chen Mu's arrangement, Hong Wenli felt that it made sense.

At this point, we can only take it one step at a time.

Hong Wenli nodded, picked up the stamps beside him, and prepared to stick them on.

The other players also gathered around, watching Hong Wenli's actions.

Just as he was about to affix the stamp, another cawing of crows rose from the nearby woods.

The creaking sound, heard near the abandoned post office in the dark forest, sent chills down one's spine.

Chen Mu whispered a reminder: "Don't stick it on the wrong side, pay attention to the front and back and the direction."

The design on the stamp looks somewhat obscure and difficult to understand. These strange designs, like the eerie bosses on some old coins, can easily create traps in terms of orientation and direction.

Only a veteran like Chen Mu could notice such details.

After hearing this, Hong Wenli also became somewhat insecure.

At this moment, Lin Shanshan also said, "You absolutely mustn't open the letter, or I'll die."

Of the four rules, rules 1, 3, and 4 do not specify penalties, while only rule 2 states that if a letter is opened without permission, the person in question will die.

The "corresponding person" is quite intriguing.

Clearly, the "Lin Shanshan" written on the envelope is very likely the person in question.

Therefore, since it concerned her own life and death, Lin Shanshan naturally had to speak up and remind her.

The continuous pressure made Hong Wenli somewhat nervous.

He looked at the stamp, then at the envelope, and finally handed the stamp to Chen Mu. "Why don't you do it, brother? I'm too young to handle this."

Looking at the older man who said he was too young to handle things, Chen Mu felt a sense of irony.

But Chen Mu didn't waste any words. He took the stamp, found the right angle, and stuck it on the envelope without saying a word.

As the stamp was affixed, all the players present held their breath and stared intently at the letter.

After all, nobody knows exactly how the delivery will be made.

We can't exactly take a taxi to some unknown village.

Clearly, we still have to rely on rule 3 – once the stamp is affixed to the surface of the letter, the letter will be automatically delivered.

No one can say for sure exactly how "automatic delivery" works.

Just then, Chen Mu and the others felt a dizzying flash of light in front of them.

The cawing of crows continued for a few moments.

A sudden feeling of weightlessness came over me, as if I had traveled through time and space.

When the situation returned to normal, Chen Mu quickly glanced at his hand, where he was still holding the letter.

The group's location shifted from next to the mailbox to outside a remote, desolate mountain village.

At the entrance to this mountain village, there is a sign.

The name of the village was written on it, which happened to be the delivery address in the letter.

"Have we arrived at the destination yet? Is it time to deliver it to me?" Lin Shanshan asked nervously, glancing at Chen Mu to make sure he hadn't opened the letter.

Lin Shanshan then said, "Chen Mu, once we enter this village and pass this sign, can you give me the letter?"

Although Lin Shanshan was nervous, she was still very polite.

Chen Mu nodded without refusing, as he also wanted to know if this counted as a successful delivery.

“But before that, everyone should take a look ahead. Something seems... off there,” Chen Mu said, pointing to the village in front of them.

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound, and sure enough!

On the outer edge of the village, there was a wooden house with a diamond-shaped icon floating above it.

"What the hell is that?" Hong Wenli couldn't help but ask.

"It looks like... the icon for completing a quest in a game," Xiaoye said.

Xiaoye's statement sounded a bit ridiculous, but upon closer inspection, Chen Mu realized it really did resemble a quest guide in a game!

Although Chen Mu didn't play games much, he had some exposure to them before the bizarre apocalypse.

Many single-player games have this kind of task guidance icon.

Chen Mu glanced at Xiao Ye. For a while, this guy stayed in the Shanshui Courtyard every day, eating potato chips and playing games, and became a shut-in for a period of time.

It seems that Xiaoye learned a lot of "amateur knowledge" during her time as a homebody.

"Why would there be something like that? Could it be a scam?" Lin Shanshan was also a little nervous, after all, her name was written on the envelope this time.

Chen Mu said, "It doesn't seem to be a big problem. It should be in accordance with rule 3 - after the [stamp] is affixed to the surface of the [letter], the [letter] will begin to be delivered automatically."

After affixing the stamp, we were teleported here, and the mission location was marked.

I think this must be what is called 'automatic mail delivery'.

Surprisingly, this bizarre mission is actually quite humane.

Chen Mu made a joke, but his tone wasn't entirely relaxed.

This situation is so unusual!

Finding the delivery location and the recipient should theoretically be very difficult; it's the tricky part of the bizarre mission and the main challenge for players.

But now, with this new method, players are teleported directly to their destination and even receive instructions on what to do.

Even within a game, this would be considered a very simple beginner's tutorial.

Is this bizarre mission really that kind?

If it were a situation where the BOSS is groveling, that would be one thing, but the entrance is so difficult to enter, it's clearly not a situation of groveling.

This contrast made Chen Mu feel uneasy.

At this moment, two lines of bloody text appeared before the players' eyes:

[Postman's Mission: Delivering the First Letter (In Progress)]

Please follow the icons to find your target.

The icon on the small wooden house not far away really is a target guide!

The difficulty of delivery is practically zero!

Lin Shanshan said, "So, the recipient's location is in that small house? The recipient really isn't me? It can't be such a coincidence that we have the same name."

Chen Mu shrugged. "We'll see how it goes. We'll find out when we get there."

With that, the four of them started walking towards the village.

Just to be on the safe side, after entering the village's landmark, Chen Mu gave the letter to Lin Shanshan as previously agreed.

After receiving the letter, Lin Shanshan carefully put it into her pocket and zipped it up.

"Girl, when you put it in your pocket, be careful not to squeeze the envelope open," Hong Wenli reminded her.

Although Lin Shanshan's life or death is related to her, it is ultimately a team mission. If they succeed on the first try, everyone can pass the test sooner.

Upon hearing this, Lin Shanshan thought for a moment, then took out the envelope again and held it carefully in her hand.

By this time, everyone had entered the mountain village.

It was very late, around midnight.

The entire village was shrouded in darkness.

The villagers were mostly asleep; looking through the windows, it was pitch black inside.

The road was eerily silent, the pitch-black night road, especially in the middle of nowhere, always made people feel uneasy.

The village roads are paved with cement, and the surrounding houses are all brick and tile houses, with only a few dilapidated wooden houses.

A gust of cold wind blew by, sending a chill down Chen Mu and his companions' spines. It felt as if a pair of eyes were watching them from behind.

Suddenly, a black fragment fell from the eaves overhead.

The black fragments landed squarely right in front of Lin Shanshan.

The fragments hit the ground with a crisp sound, shattering into pieces and scattering into a large pile of fragments.

Lin Shanshan was startled and immediately screamed, "Ah!"

Chen Mu and the others were also startled and quickly looked towards the location of the broken pieces.

With the help of the sparse starlight, one could barely make out that the ground was covered with broken tiles.

Chen Mu and the others looked up and saw that the tile had fallen off the roof of the tiled house.

Just as the group looked up, they suddenly heard footsteps coming from the roof of the tiled house.

Xiao Ye immediately assumed a battle stance, protecting Chen Mu in front of her, and shouted in a low voice towards the rooftop:

"who!"

The rooftop suddenly fell silent as the players held their breath and nervously looked up at it.

A few seconds later, accompanied by a "meow," a black cat poked its head out from the roof.

"It was just a cat." Lin Shanshan breathed a sigh of relief. She had thought something eerie was about to kill her with a tile.

It turned out to be just a black cat; what a false alarm!

The black cat meowed again and then stepped off the roof to go somewhere else.

Watching the black cat disappear into the distance, Chen Mu couldn't help but think of Bao Bao's figure.

I once met the cat Bao Bao in a mountain village—an ancient one, no less.

Now, in a remote mountain village, seeing a black cat stirred up some emotions in Chen Mu.

Am I getting old? Do I start reminiscing about the past?

Wait... or is the appearance of this cat a deliberate arrangement by the eerie BOSS?

As the boss of the "newspaper," he possesses the latest information on the bizarre apocalypse and may even know about Chen Mu's past experiences.

It's quite possible that a similar plot would be specifically included in "The Death Postman".

Is this just a gesture of goodwill, or is there another purpose? Could the eerie boss even have a twisted sense of humor, deliberately designing a hidden Easter egg?

Chen Mu is unaware of this for the time being.

Hong Wenli spat, "Encountering a black cat in the middle of the night, what bad luck!"

"Don't talk nonsense, or it might really come true," Chen Mu warned.

As they spoke, the group continued walking in the direction of the icon.

After walking for a short while, Chen Mu and his three companions arrived at the wooden house.

Compared to the other brick and tile houses in the mountain village, the wooden house in front of us looks much older.

Some of the wooden planks in the wall were even cracked, and the inside could be vaguely seen from the outside.

Chen Mu approached the broken wooden planks and saw a dim yellow light faintly shining through them.

The owner of this house is still awake!

As Chen Mu approached the gap in the wooden planks, he noticed a faint, almost imperceptible fragrance wafting from the room.

Chen Mu frowned slightly, because he had keenly sensed something—

The aroma also carried a faint... bloody smell!

"Can you smell it?" Chen Mu turned his head and asked the others in a low voice.

Xiaoye nodded; his senses were equally sharp.

However, Lin Shanshan and Hong Wenli, two untrained ordinary people, were not so perceptive.

"Boss, look, the icon's position has changed again!" Xiaoye said, pointing to the roof of the wooden house.

Chen Mu looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the icon that had been floating on the roof had changed in size and position.

The icon has been reduced in size by at least half, becoming tiny.

However, the icon also entered the wooden house from the roof, appearing before Chen Mu and the others in a "perspective" way.

Chen Mu had seen this situation before in games. In fact, it had become a standard feature in single-player games.

That means that after a player receives a quest, there will be a large icon to guide the player in the direction of the quest.

As the player gets closer to the target point, the icon will automatically shrink and refocus.

Eventually, as the player gets closer, the icon will shrink to the top of an NPC's head; that's the NPC the player needs to interact with.

The "automatic delivery" system in [Death Postman] is now similar to that in the game.

Chen Mu noticed that the icon was located, to be precise, underground in the house.

"The basement? The recipient is in the basement," Lin Shanshan said. "Should we knock on the door and ask her to come up and get the mail?"

Lin Shanshan looked at Chen Mu and the others, wanting to get the opinions of the other players.

"I'm afraid it's not that simple," Chen Mu said. "There are lights on in this wooden house, which clearly indicates that someone is active there."

The light is inside the house, not in the basement. The recipient, however, is in the basement.

There might be more than one person in this cabin.

Lin Shanshan said, "So you mean? We should knock on the door and ask first?"

“Hehe, young lady, sometimes being too polite isn’t a good thing,” Hong Wenli said. “Chen Mu means that the person other than the recipient is probably not a good person.”

Just imagine, it's late at night, everyone else in the village is asleep, and this is the only family still with their lights on. The recipient even went to the basement in the middle of the night.

This just doesn't seem normal!

The mailman's job is definitely not going to be easy. Knocking on the door now would only alert them.

Hong Wenli may look like a rough man, but after being brutally beaten in the bizarre apocalypse, he is much better than Lin Shanshan at understanding semantics and predicting situations.

Chen Mu nodded; that was exactly what he meant.

Chen Mu also noticed a combination of fragrance and the stench of blood. Generally speaking, this is never a good sign in eerie missions.

"Then what should we do?" Lin Shanshan was at a loss for what to do.

Chen Mu didn't speak, but pointed to the wall surrounding the wooden house.

The meaning is clear—climb over the wall, sneak in, gather intelligence, and wait for the right opportunity to act!

But who would climb over the wall first? Lin Shanshan looked at the group and hesitated. Hong Wenli also showed no intention of stepping forward.

Xiao Ye whispered to Chen Mu'er, "Boss, should I try it first?"