In the world of anime with the power to stop time.

Chapter 073: Mysterious Object

Once is a coincidence, but twice is not necessarily so.

Lin Ye had a premonition that he would encounter a mysterious game linked to the "Chiba Station Fire Incident."

"It's necessary to investigate the truth of the 'Chiba Station Fire Incident,' to search for related information,"

Lin Ye picked up a pen and wrote it in his notebook's plan.

His memory was good, but he preferred to record important matters in his notebook to arrange his time more reasonably.

Since he had no time to meet Ren Nanase the day after tomorrow, he would go tomorrow!

"Tomorrow, I'll go to the Chiba Fire Department and the Chiba Police Department to look for detailed investigation reports on the fire incident."

Lin Ye made the decision to quickly find the materials and understand the details of the incident, which would help him handle future tasks and missions related to the mysterious games.

Da da da…

The pen in Lin Ye's hand lightly tapped the desk, making a crisp sound.

"Ren Nanase also hasn't received an 'invitation to the mysterious game.' For now, we can assume that participants in ordinary real-world tasks won't receive invites to become players in the game."

The total number of mysterious game players was smaller than expected.

There were seven passengers on the 18 bus, including him, and only two survived. Even so, Ren Nanase wasn't invited.

Compared to Ai Hoshino and Hikari Kuroda from the Love Hotel, Ren Nanase is contribution on the bus was absolutely greater.

The bizarre suturing of wounds, the strange cooling of fever, Ren Nanase had exerted a lot of effort.

Thus, participation, contribution, and invitation qualifications had little correlation.

Player qualifications, for now, only depended on the type of mysterious game task.

Shasha shasha...

Lin Ye recorded the events of the bus ride and reflected on whether he could have survived without the ability to stop time.

"The game with the little boy was difficult, purely by luck, or maybe the boy let me go."

But that round, some passengers would inevitably die.

Projects relying purely on luck were the most unsafe.

Without time-stop, he didn't think he could safely make it through.

Future mysterious games would definitely feature more complex, more difficult, and more dangerous games. Lin Ye was actually looking forward to it.

A new life, a new beginning in this mixed world of the second dimension, he wanted to experience more surprises, joy, and excitement.

The mysterious games would surely fulfill this small wish of his.

The summary for today ended.

However, the task completion notification had yet to arrive.

Could surviving the 18 bus be not enough?

Time passed after midnight.

At that moment, the familiar mechanical sound rang.

Ding!

"Mysterious aura carrier Ren Nanase confirmed safe,"

"Ordinary real-world task has been completed."

Reward 1: 150 game points (Blessing 'Point Split' effect active)

Reward 2: 150 experience points

Reward 3: Random white-quality items X2

Your current experience is 250/200, you can now consume experience to level

up your game character.

"Do you wish to level up?"

"Level up,"

With Lin Ye's words, the new notification arrived.

"Congratulations, your game level has been upgraded to LV1."

"You gained 1 free allocation point."

"The equipment and item function is unlocked. When you obtain items in the mysterious game, you will get relevant information."

"The backpack function is unlocked, you now have 5 backpack slots."

"Your mysterious game has just begun."

"We hope you enjoy your game experience!"...

...

The equipment and item function unlocked? Backpack?

Lin Ye looked at his game character panel. His level had become LV1, with experience 50/300.

"The next level requires 100 more experience than before? I still need 250 experience to level up to level 2."

Leveling up one level gives 1 free allocation point. He currently had 8 free allocation points, which he hadn't used yet.

"Let me try the backpack function."

He then focused his mind, and the pen in his hand disappeared.

"It has appeared in the backpack slot, taking up one slot.

Let me try putting multiple identical items into the same slot."

Lin Ye brought over a book.

Ten books were no problem.

Then, Lin Ye stuffed all the clothes and pants together and successfully placed them into one of the empty backpack slots.

However, when he tried to add more clothes, they went into the second slot.

Lin Ye repeated the experiment multiple times, such as trying to stuff books into the clothes, attempting to store them in the same slot, but he failed he couldn't succeed.

After several attempts, Lin Ye had a general understanding.

"Items of similar nature can be stacked together and stored, but I'm not sure if there's a volume or weight limit."

He guessed there might be one. The amount of clothes and books he tested was too little, nowhere near enough. He needed further experiments.

"Once a slot is used, you can't place the same type of item into it again."

"As for retrieving..."

Soon, all the clothes appeared on the bed.

Lin Ye understood how retrieval worked now.

But no matter what, the unlocking of the backpack slots provided him with great convenience he could carry items with him, and if there were dangerous items, he could store them in the backpack slots.

"Equipment, from the mysterious game. I haven't even extracted the three white-quality items yet!"

"Extract,"

Lin Ye navigated to the mail section of his panel and saw two new messages.

He chose to extract.

"Congratulations, you've obtained a steel dagger x1, quality: White."

"Congratulations, you've obtained 100,000 yen, quality: White."

"Congratulations, you've obtained a gas mask x1, quality: White."

The lowest quality of game equipment was white, and it ranked upwards as blue, purple, orange, and gold, with gold being the best.

Skills also followed this color system to differentiate quality and rarity.

"My time-stop superpower should count as a skill, with at least gold quality starting!"

Lin Ye smiled, but unfortunately, the time-stop ability didn't appear on his panel.

The 100,000 yen could be spent, and the steel dagger and gas mask were items that could also be bought in real life, so they weren't particularly good items.

"Better than nothing."

Lin Ye casually placed the gas mask and steel dagger into the backpack slots.

He opened the drawer and, as he was putting away the notebook, he suddenly noticed something wrapped in cloth inside the drawer.

"This is..."

Lin Ye remembered.

It was the mysterious black bead he had taken from the man's forehead during the attack at the concert on Monday.

He unwrapped the cloth and took out the black bead.

In an instant, related information appeared in his vision.

"This really is a mysterious game item."

He had guessed right.

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