Chapter 236
The Destroyer of Order, Silent Hill, Invasion of the Otherworld!
Chapter 236 The Destroyer of Order, Silent Hill, Invasion of the Otherworld! (4k)
With careful observation, it's easy to spot anything amiss on the main god's panel.
Because the challengers entering the instance had already been divided into groups, according to the prompts from the God Space, they would still be randomly divided into three different groups.
This means that some of the previous rules have been disrupted. The groupings are now random; a challenger from the Central Chamber of Commerce might be grouped with the five challengers who were dragged there to their deaths, and Lu Ming might also be grouped with another challenger from the Central Chamber of Commerce…
Nobody knows why this happened.
Is this a bug fix from the Gods Space, or is this just a problem that occurs only in the Silent Hill instance?
"Are you kidding me!"
A burly challenger with a face full of menacing features had his eyelids twitching.
The previous groupings have been disrupted and are now entirely determined by the Main God Space, which means that there will inevitably be casualties among them.
In team-based competitive dungeons, only one team can ultimately survive.
Infighting among their own people is the last thing they want to see, but given the current situation, it seems unavoidable.
"Oh? Randomly grouped into three teams... That's interesting."
Lu Ming was only slightly surprised, but didn't pay too much attention to it.
For him, there was no need for teammates; he could clear the dungeon by himself.
In this team-based competitive dungeon, the final missions for the three teams are all different.
Challengers who enter normally not only have to find a way to survive in the terrifying world of Silent Hill, but also need to be wary of interference and influence from other teams, which undoubtedly adds a lot of difficulty to the mission itself.
As the eleven challengers fell into the void together, the phantom images they presented were continuously distributed.
The first team consisted of three challengers with missing limbs and two challengers from the Central Chamber of Commerce.
The second team consisted of two challengers with missing limbs, two challengers from the Central Chamber of Commerce, and Lu Ming.
Chen Tiantian, the blonde girl who was in charge of leading the Central Chamber of Commerce team this time, was assigned to a separate team.
Lu Ming was somewhat surprised. He originally thought that, given the nature of the Main God Space, he would be assigned to a separate team, but he didn't expect that the one assigned to a separate team would be Chen Tiantian from the Central Chamber of Commerce.
The surrounding space was empty, and everyone else had disappeared, leaving only the figures of the other four people who were in Lu Ming's team.
The two challengers, who had lost their arms and legs, were completely wrapped in black cloth. Even after the unexpected happened, they remained silent and motionless, like two walking corpses.
The two challengers from the Central Chamber of Commerce looked at each other, glanced at each other, and then looked at Lu Ming, unsure of what to say.
Just then, small white characters appeared on the main god panel, showing the identities of Lu Ming and his group of five this time.
The Destroyer
[Mission: Find Alessa, and reduce the three layers of Silent Hill to one, making them all part of the Inner World, destroying the Outer World and the Real World.]
"This is the mission for this team-based PvP dungeon..."
Lu Ming looked at the mission description, lost in thought.
This task is not simply about Lu Ming destroying Silent Hill in a brutal and brute force manner; it requires invading Silent Hill's real world and surface world through the Inner World.
His previous speculations about the real world, the surface world, and the inner world have not yet been confirmed, so he cannot make a detailed plan in an instant; he only has a general idea.
As for Alessa mentioned on the main god panel, she is the creator of the Silent Hill surface world and the inner world. The surface world and the inner world reflect the shallow and deep dark sides of Alessa's consciousness.
Even without the system's requirements, if Lu Ming wanted to complete the task, the first thing he would think of was to start from Alessa's perspective.
"Since there are Destroyers, then the identities of the other two teams must be opposed to ours, or at least conflict with it to some extent."
"The dungeon reward remains 100 attribute points and a supernatural item... This goes without saying; the reward is still quite generous."
"However, to my surprise, the God Space did not prepare any extra tasks for me this time, probably because the Silent Hill dungeon this time is a team-based competitive event."
Although there were no extra tasks, Lu Ming didn't care too much.
Because there were no supernatural entities he wanted to control in Silent Hill.
You can't exactly control a faceless nurse, an armless person, or a person with a triangular head...
Before arriving at the Main God Space, Lu Ming had even seen some comments online saying things like, "The nurses in Silent Hill have amazing figures, they're practically a bunch of beauties." To these people, Lu Ming could only say that they were a bit too oppressive.
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the other side.
The three challengers, whose bodies were wrapped in black cloth strips, and the two challengers from the Central Chamber of Commerce fell silent, staring at the white text that appeared on the main god panel in front of them.
[Believers]
[Mission: Become a member of the church, help the members defend against the invasion from the other world, and survive for seven days.]
Believers are the identity of this group.
For these challengers, simply reading the mission description is usually not enough to understand what the mission is about.
However, the title "believers" and the mission of "helping the church resist the invasion of the underworld" give people a strong sense of justice at first glance.
If they lived in a movie, the one who would receive this mission would definitely be a hero, not a villain.
From this perspective, they naturally have a significant advantage, and their chances of survival are not small.
"The mission isn't difficult; you only need to survive for 7 days. Generally speaking, survival missions are the easiest. For a horror movie dungeon with a seven-star difficulty, we're already very lucky to have drawn this mission."
One of the challengers from the Central Chamber of Commerce pondered to himself.
At first, they might have been a little disoriented after the order was disrupted, but they quickly adjusted.
Being selected by the Central Chamber of Commerce to participate in a horror movie dungeon of seven-star difficulty means they must have some skill.
Not only do they need to be highly capable, but they are all ruthless and vicious individuals.
Previously, they were all colleagues in the same chamber of commerce, helping each other out. Now, he has entered a dungeon and has been assigned to different teams, where they have to fight to the death.
Then we'd no longer be colleagues, but enemies.
Thinking this, the challenger looked at the three challengers whose bodies were completely wrapped in black cloth, and thought to himself:
"These three guys are nominally our teammates, but they're actually no help at all. Keeping them around will only hold us back. We need to find an opportunity to take them all out once we enter the dungeon..."
"Anyway, the rules don't mention anything about not killing teammates."
"Are you kidding me!"
Chen Tiantian clutched her blonde hair in a state of near collapse, unsure of what to say.
They had made ample preparations, planning to speed through after the crash.
But now it has turned into an internal power struggle within the Central Chamber of Commerce.
The challengers selected this time are all elites of the Central Chamber of Commerce. Regardless of the final outcome, the Central Chamber of Commerce will ultimately suffer the losses.
What Chen Tiantian found most unacceptable was that she, the original team leader, was assigned to a separate team.
No matter how strong one person is, they can't possibly be a match for several other challengers.
This was practically a joke played on her by the Main God Space.
Immediately afterwards, Chen Tiantian saw the text appear on the main god panel.
[The Lone Ranger]
[Mission: Kill Alessa, wiping out the other two teams. You may infiltrate the "Cultist" team.]
Who is Alessa?
Chen Tiantian was unaware of this.
Based on her past experience completing horror movie levels, this should be the name of a little girl, and this little girl is very likely the final mastermind.
"The most difficult part of the whole mission should be killing Alessa... However, the Main God Space has given me a hint that I can infiltrate the cultists' team... This cultist should be the code name of another challenger team, but I don't know which team the cultists are."
Chen Tiantian secretly hoped that Lu Ming wasn't among the "believers".
This guy gives him a dangerous feeling. If Lu Ming is assigned to the cultists' team, Chen Tiantian's infiltration plan might not be so easy to succeed.
After the three teams were assigned roles, and after a brief preparation, without any communication or cooperation, everyone silently entered the instance.
Dots of white light appeared in the dark void, gradually solidifying to form a line of small white characters.
The Silent Hill instance has officially begun!!!
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This time, before entering the instance, an extra memory was forcibly implanted into the minds of each challenger.
This is a background introduction specifically used by the Main God Space.
Silent Hill is located on the shore of Lake Luca in the United States. Before the 16th century, it was a place for Native Americans to communicate with spirits.
In their belief, everyone possesses their own soul, hence Silent Hill is also known as the "Land of Silent Souls."
In the 17th century, with the arrival of British colonists, a witch hunt swept through Salem. The head of a church was burned at the stake as a witch, while the rest of the congregation moved to Silent Hill and established a church there.
As time went by, many things happened in Silent Hill.
Several of these were large-scale infectious diseases.
People living here have either left or died, which has made Silent Hill filled with a sinister atmosphere, resulting in some supernatural phenomena that cannot be explained by science.
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These messages, forcibly injected into one's consciousness, provide a general overview of Silent Hill's background and development.
Much of the information was useless, but some of it was useful, information that even Lu Ming hadn't known in detail before.
After all, he had only seen the Silent Hill movies before, and had never actually played the original Silent Hill games.
When Lu Ming and the remaining challengers opened their eyes, what greeted them was a gray, foggy town.
Everything here appears incredibly dim, its original colors faded.
The fluffy, drifting particles in the sky looked as if it were snowing continuously.
These fibrous materials fell onto Lu Ming's face. He gently wiped them away with his hand and discovered that they were actually paper ash left over from the fire.
To be honest, the scenery in Silent Hill is somewhat similar to that in the Ghost Painting world, but they are not exactly the same. There are subtle differences, which are easy for someone like Lu Ming, who has mastered the Ghost Painting, to distinguish.
Just then, a series of hurried footsteps sounded. Lu Ming looked in the direction of the sound and saw a woman with disheveled hair. She was panting and asked anxiously, "Gentlemen, have you seen my daughter?"
She was so anxious that she didn't notice the two challengers with missing limbs and wrapped in black gauze at first.
After seeing what these people looked like, Ross was so frightened that he backed away repeatedly, never expecting to encounter such strange people.
“We mean no harm. Tell us who you are and why you are here.”
Just then, Lu Ming's emotionless voice came through, asking a question.
While asking questions, he used the supernatural power of the Deceitful Ghost to influence Ross's consciousness. As a result, Ross offered no resistance and showed a look of complete trust in Lu Ming, and began to slowly recount his story.
It turns out that Ross discovered his sleepwalking adopted daughter, Sharon, was unconsciously calling out for a place called "Silent Hill" in her sleep.
So Rose, without telling her husband, Sharon's adoptive father, began to secretly investigate the so-called Silent Hill.
She learned from online rumors that Silent Hill does exist in reality, but a fire once broke out there, causing heavy casualties among the residents, and the few survivors left the place.
So Silent Hill quickly became a wasteland and even disappeared from the map.
So Ross embarked on a journey with his daughter to find Silent Hill, hoping to heal Sharon's heartbreak.
It must be said that Ross was very lucky. She followed the route on the map and soon saw a road sign pointing the way. The name written on the road sign was Silent Hill.
But just as the car was driving, a little girl suddenly darted out from the middle of the road.
The most chilling thing is that the little girl looks exactly like her daughter Sharon.
In an attempt to avoid a collision, Ross swerved the steering wheel, crashing into a roadside guardrail. The accident left both mother and daughter unconscious.
When Ross awoke from his coma, he discovered that his daughter was missing.
Before me lay a hazy gray expanse, with ashes of paper falling in swirling patterns. The silence, the eeriness, the gloom—all evoked an overwhelming, primal fear from the depths of my being.
Driven by excruciating pain, Ross got out of the car in an attempt to find his lost daughter, Sharon, only to encounter Lu Ming and his group...
"Where is that child from earlier?"
"Who are you? Hands above your heads, all of you squat down and don't move!"
At that moment, a police car appeared in front of Lu Ming and his group without them noticing, and a policewoman with a great figure and pretty face got out of the car with a gun.
(End of this chapter)