Chapter 2: One More Person Appeared

  "Chinese squad officially enters mission world - 'Mr. Zombie'!"

  [Task Attribute]: Traditional!

  Task members: 2 seniors, 3 newcomers, total: 5 people.

  **Main Quest**: Suppress the Evil Infant! After completing the quest, the Chinese squad will immediately return to the main god space. Quest reward: All team members will receive 1 G-level plot and 1000 reward points.

  **Branch Mission 1**: Become a member of the Ma Family Village Vigilante and guard the village at night; after completing the mission, the player will receive a G-level storyline and 1000 reward points.

  Side Quest 2: Obtain a Zombie Fang; after completing the quest, the quest completer will receive 1000 reward points.

  Side Quest 3: Obtain Zombie Heart Blood; after completing the quest, the completer will receive 2 G-level storylines and 3000 reward points.

  Side Quest 4: Dispel the eerie fog within the mystical forest; upon completion, the quest completer will receive 1 G-Rank story and 1000 reward points.

  Branch Mission 5: Kill the local warlord Lu Dashi; after completing the mission, the completer will receive 1 F-level plot and 1000 reward points.

  [PS1]: Newcomer Survival Reward: For every new player who survives and returns to the main divine space, all team members receive an additional 500 reward points.

  【PS2】: Any technological products beyond the Task World are strictly prohibited from use!

  【Task World Introduction】：——In the late Qing and early Republic of China, the Great Xia was in chaos, foreign invaders invaded, civilization was precarious, people's hearts were panicked, years of war, countless killings, the order of the divine state collapsed, and evil spirits reappeared. In various parts of China, there were rumors of zombies killing people and evil spirits harming humans. Similarly, many Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist disciples also left their schools and started their own journey to eliminate demons and protect the Tao.

  ……

  This time, even Xiao Xuan himself felt that the time it took to wake up was a bit longer, and he felt like he had really slept for a while. When his consciousness awakened, he immediately opened his eyes alertly, only to find himself lying on a long chair, surrounded by wreaths used for the dead. The tip of his nose still lingered with the scent of incense burning, a smell that was really unpleasant and made one's heart feel uneasy.

  The next moment, Xiao Xuan was slightly surprised to find that even the clothes on his body had changed, turning into a blue and white striped jacket, and the shoes he wore were actually thousand-layered cloth shoes.

  When Xiao Xuan's gaze fell on his fingers, his eyebrows finally relaxed slightly, because the Soul Ring and the Space Ring were still on his hands.

  Xiao Xuan immersed his consciousness into the spatial ring and found that the several handguns and grenades originally stored inside had all disappeared. However, his magical tools were still there. Recalling the message left by the main god in his mind, Xiao Xuan understood that any products exceeding this world's technological level would be forcibly prohibited from use by the main god. As for how to enforce this prohibition, the main god's method was simple and crude - it simply erased them from existence within this task world. However, after completing the task and returning to the main god space, those things that were erased in this task world should also reappear.

  "It's truly an all-powerful main god." Xiao Xuan's tone couldn't be discerned as either praise or sarcasm, he stood up from the long chair, scanned his surroundings, and quickly discovered the other five people around him, who were just like his previous self, sleeping on the long chairs. Looking at the sun outside, it was almost noon, it seemed that they should have been taking a nap.

  Xiao Xuan walked to Su Mo Ran's side, his footsteps were light, but the friction between his cloth shoes and the floor tiles seemed to have stimulated Su Mo Ran as well. Her eyelids trembled slightly before quickly opening her eyes.

  Silk!

  A hissing sound like a snake spitting out its letter spread, and then Xiao Xuan felt a chill on the back of her neck, but Xiao Xuan didn't dodge because the chill was gone in an instant.

  "You should get out of the way." Su Mo Ran retracted the Death God's Thread that she had unconsciously released just now. When she first woke up and realized someone was beside her, she subconsciously activated the Death God's Thread, but as soon as she realized it was Xiao Xuan, she immediately withdrew it.

  "It's too fast, I can't dodge." Xiao Xuan replied with this sentence. He indeed couldn't dodge, the speed of the Death God's Thread was simply too fast, and he had just seen Su Muran at a very close distance. Most importantly, Xiao Xuan was a magician who hadn't strengthened his body, so it was naturally difficult for him to gain any advantage in close combat against the Death God's Thread.

  "What is this place? How did the clothes on me become like this?" Su Mo Ran also discovered the changes around her and couldn't help but ask, while she had selectively ignored the reason Xiao Xuan mentioned earlier.

  "Think about it with your little brain, the main god has left us a message in our minds, and we should have gotten the answer already."

  The first task world I entered was "Human Clearing Plan 1", and the main god gave it a survival mode attribute, which means we have to survive the killing night. The previous task world was called "Dark Invasion 1" with an attribute of target protection, where we had to protect Sarah. This time, the task world is called "Zombie Mr." with a traditional attribute.

  How should this tradition be understood? Let's take a look at the clothes we wear now and the environment we are in, which is different from the previous time when the main god randomly threw us to a place. Obviously, this time, the main god has arranged for us more detailed and fitting identities.

  In "Human Purge Plan 1", I didn't have much of an identity and didn't need one, but in the world of "Darkness Invasion 1", our identities were determined by the main god, that is, as friends of Sarah and others. Of course, this identity was also quite broad and didn't have a big impact on us. But this time, everything from clothing to location has been carefully arranged, with the task attribute of "tradition" added on top. If I'm not mistaken, this should be similar to making a real movie. The main god has already given us a specific identity in this place, this village, or rather this town, and has also strictly forbidden us from using technological products beyond the Republican era. It's like when filming a period drama and suddenly seeing an electric pole - maybe the main god doesn't want us to "break character" in the task world.

  "What are we now? There are wreaths and candles everywhere to mourn the dead." Su Mu Ran pointed around, his eyebrows slightly furrowed. As someone who was a bit more normal, seeing all these things around him would always make him feel a little uneasy.

  "Isn't the answer right in front of us? Our identities in this task world should be those who make a living by selling funeral goods, normally selling flower wreaths and 'golden ingots', and when there's a funeral, we temporarily act as Taoist priests, jumping and dancing while reciting incantations, just like those Taoist priests in zombie movies."

  "It's really disgusting to hear, but this time the main god of the task world gave a lot of branch tasks with rich rewards." Su Mo Ran looked at Xiao Xuan, she knew that with Xiao Xuan's personality, he would definitely not be satisfied with just completing a main task and returning to the main god space.

  "Right, there are many side quests and the rewards are rich, but let's take it one step at a time. Although I'm a magician, to be honest, I'm just an apprentice magician. If we set aside the auxiliary effects of guns and ammunition, my actual level is probably similar to those wandering Taoist priests on the streets. And I think the Taoist priest played by Lam Ching-ying in zombie movies might even surpass me in terms of spellcasting ability. In comparison, your spiritual body and Death's Thread can play a huge role here. However, we need to explore this world's evil infants and zombies first to see how powerful they are before proceeding. This main quest doesn't have a time limit, so we have plenty of time to take it one step at a time."

  Su Mo Ran nodded, indicating that she agreed with Xiao Xuan's analysis. She then turned her head to look at the newlyweds who were still lying on the long chair "taking a nap" and asked Xiao Xuan:

  "What's going to happen with these four newcomers?"

  Among the four newcomers, two men and two women were lying on the long chair taking a nap, all of whom looked young, probably in their early twenties. This time, because the main god changed everyone's clothes to the clothes of this era, even the veteran Xiao Xuan and Su Muran couldn't tell the profession of these new people in real society from their clothes.

  "Just as I said before, it seems that in horror movies, there is a certain sense of safety when people are together. They die one by one, and whether it's zombies or ghosts, they like to kill one person at a time. This undoubtedly gives us some room for maneuver and time. Of course, now is not the time to think about this. Have you noticed a very serious problem?"

  "What's wrong?" Su Mo noticed that Xiao Xuan suddenly became serious, and subconsciously, she also sensed a heavy atmosphere, the Death God's Thread in her hand began to build up energy.

  Xiao Xuan walked into the middle of the four newcomers, pointing at them and saying: "The message from the main god was clearly about 3 new people. Now, there are 4 lying here, which means that one of them is not human!"