There's definitely something wrong with this murder mystery game

Shortly after entering the game, Xu Shuo discovered an unused item in his Player's Handbook.

[Dreamcatcher: It is said that a long time ago, someone used it to catch a badger in the melon fields.]

He had been saving up points to buy other items and wouldn't normally buy something useless, especially since he had purchased this item before entering this Script Space, which meant it was probably intended for use here.

Xu Shuo took out the "Dreamcatcher," a large purple butterfly net that looked very much like a child's toy.

As the strange noise approached from behind, he turned around, took up the net, and threw it down directly!

Puff~

The netting covered the upper body of the monster, with blood dripping from the mouth that split open on its belly, and those crimson eyes flickered through the purple mesh, refracting enchanting colors.

The girl lying in the Fields: "..."

She didn't expect him to actually treat the monster as if it were a badger and brought a net to catch it.

Is there really nothing wrong with his thinking?

It was silent in the night fields for quite a while.

Xu Shuo took down the net and talked to himself while looking at the Dreamcatcher that remained clean even after touching the monster: "No use?"

The girl: How could that possibly be of any use!

At that moment, the distorted Stitched Monster leaned in a little, bringing its foul stench with it.

The girl lying in the Fields clutched her mouth tightly, watching the two silhouettes in the darkness from afar, hoping not to end up spending the night lying next to the monster in the field.

In her view, the monster's body started to twist irregularly, as if there was something inside swelling up, and this phenomenon reminded her of the regurgitation she had witnessed earlier.

But the monster didn't regurgitate back into its own mouth, but into others' bodies!

The more she thought about it, the more scared she became, already mourning for the Acting Village Chief in her heart.

However, the next moment, the monster began to collapse downward like it had ingested a solvent, its body twisting and slowly dissolving into a pool of filth, seeping into the field.

In the blink of an eye, under the silent moonlit night, only the man with the ambiguous expression remained standing in the field.

The girl didn't move until she saw that for a long moment nothing unusual happened to him, then she cautiously stood up.

"What happened?"

"I don't know either," Xu Shuo turned his head towards her, an innocent look on his face, "I thought it was going to do something to me, but after looking at me, it just disappeared suddenly."

The girl looked at him skeptically.

But this time it was true, Xu Shuo really had no idea what happened.

He had even been waiting—if that thing was going to attack him, he could try using Qiuzi's Character Card; and after transforming into Qiuzi, he would be able to use the "Dark Stealth" ability in this Script Space.

Both seemed like beings of an Evil God, so it was uncertain which one would prove more formidable in a fight.

Yet the creature just dissolved and vanished abruptly.

Xu Shuo ground the mud under his feet, where the liquefied monster perfectly merged into the field, and even the stench had disappeared.

All that was left were remnants of human flesh and blood.

"Has it gone?" the girl slowly edged over.

"It should be gone."

Hearing this, the girl hesitated slightly in her steps, then moved to his side and turned on her phone's flashlight to look around.

Having assured herself that there was nothing around but a fresh corpse and chunks of flesh, she finally let go of her worries, and then, unable to suppress her disgust any longer, she leaned on Xu Shuo and started to vomit beside him.

This posture made Xu Shuo think that the monster had entered her body again.

"Sorry, I don't know why, but I feel really sick!" The girl vomited out her dinner, with cold sweat streaming down her forehead.

"Haven't you seen this before?" Xu Shuo asked with an implied meaning.

"I've never encountered such a strange thing before!" The girl shook her head frantically.

Before entering the game, she had heard that this was a test script, which would be more difficult, but in fact, she had only experienced a newcomer script and one level one script before the test.

If it hadn't been for encountering this kind of monster so suddenly, she would have almost thought that this Script Space was entirely safe.

The girl vomited to the point where only bile was left, then saw the Trench Coat Detective lying beside her, and quickly covered her own mouth, not daring to vomit again.

After quickly looking around the fields, Xu Shuo saw no other anomalies, then turned his head and said, "It looks like tonight's business is over, let's go, it's time to head back."

"But but but..." The girl stammered, trembling as she pointed at the person in the fields.

"It's none of our business." Xu Shuo said coldly, then turned and walked onto the village path, not looking back as he headed towards the village.

The girl felt a chill in her heart but dared not say anything, quickening her pace to catch up and following closely behind.

The dark mountain village was eerily silent, devoid of any light except for the moon, which was barely visible behind the clouds, as if swallowed by the Abyss.

Having just experienced such a terrifying incident, the girl was suspicious and wary as she walked, turning around suddenly from time to time, fearing that something ghostly might burst out of the corners.

It was only when the two of them returned to the two-story building at the foot of the mountain that she let out a sigh of relief.

At this moment, looking at the figure ahead of her, she hesitated and asked, "Acting Village Chief, why did you choose to save me before?"

"The painting on the wall is not yet finished, and I've already paid you." Xu Shuo said indifferently, glancing at the second floor before walking in through the door.

"I see..." The girl tugged at the corner of her mouth.

If it hadn't been for that painting, she wouldn't have thought of going out to look for badgers, no, "Green-Faced Fangs" tonight.

Xu Shuo's room was on the first floor; he ignored the girl, yawned, closed his bedroom door, and went straight to bed.

He had already decided that he would reduce staying up late and pulling all-nighters in the future.

Since they hadn't caught the "Green-Faced Fangs" tonight, there must be other completion conditions, just like the cause of Qiuzi's death...

Thinking of these things, Xu Shuo fell asleep quickly.

The girl stood alone in the pitch-black living room, the coolness of the late spring crawling from her feet to her head, causing her to shiver, and she quickly touched the wall and made her way up the stairs to her own door.

At that moment, the door across from her opened, the sudden noise startling the girl, making her hair stand on end!

When she realized what had happened, she saw it was the female reporter.

"You were in the field just now, weren't you?" The female reporter turned on the light of her phone, looking at her with a strange expression.

"Um..." The girl hung her head in silence.

"Can you not always act like this?" The female reporter sighed helplessly, saying, "In this event, people can really die, cleaned out from the inside out, and if we're not careful, we could all be wiped out!"

The girl looked at her with some fear.

Of course, she knew; the system had made it clear before entering the game that test tasks could be lethal!

But at that time, she did not have a clear understanding of it until the Trench Coat Detective died in such a peculiar way right in front of her, throwing the girl into complete turmoil!

She had thought that maybe the village chief would be a good person, but the other party, in some respects, showed extreme indifference and even a certain terror.

This script was way too dangerous!

"How about it, will you cooperate with me now?" the female reporter asked with an intense gaze, "Exchange information?"