The sky in early summer was a little hot. Amidst the sparse chirping of cicadas, the sun shone through the shade of the swaying trees on Su Lin's face, causing him to squint due to the flickering light.

He turned his head and looked down the road, picked up his suitcase, and saw that the bus he was waiting for had arrived.

In the afternoon, there were very few people on the bus. He found a seat and sat down. Then he took out the backend of Writer's Assistant on his mobile phone and looked at the readers' comments.

"I doubt the author's mental state."

“I feel like a mentally ill person of ten years would not be able to write a book like this.”

"I suspect the author wrote it in a mental hospital?"

"..."

Looking at these comments that doubted his mental state, Su Lin smiled knowingly. The readers thought that the logic of the book he wrote was too difficult and would easily lead to confusion after reading too much. These comments were all well-intentioned ridicule, but it is estimated that no readers could guess

It turns out that his new book was actually written in a mental hospital.

Yes, he is an online writer, but he prefers to call his profession a new-age plot art creator.

Snap—pop—pop—

The sound of raindrops hitting the glass diverted Su Lin's attention. He looked out the window. The weather in early summer changed at any time. When he was discharged from the hospital, the sky was clear. Now it started to rain, and it was getting worse.

.

Su Lin likes rain. Rainy days can cover up the hustle and bustle of the outside world, leaving only pure natural sounds.

But today is more troublesome because he didn't bring an umbrella and he doesn't have a home.

Before being admitted to the hospital, he had already checked out the capsule room he was staying in, and he was originally going to go to the agency to view the room today.

He turned on the screen of his phone to see if the agent had responded, but unexpectedly the browser on his phone opened automatically with a game advertisement on it.

At first glance, it was the kind of web game that was falsely advertised and developed at low cost. Because he turned on the external playback on his mobile phone, the animation above was still playing with voice.

"Ah, why did I get a random noob at the beginning this time? How is this going to work? Hey... there is a giant beast in front of me that is injured and can't move. I'm going to give it a try..."

"Wow - the swallowing was successful, I actually evolved into Xu Kun!"

"The beginning is a success, evolution depends entirely on swallowing, it's all in Shanhai Game!"

Su Lin's mouth was a bit awkward. He didn't know where to complain for a while. He could only say that there were too many elements.

But what surprised him the most was why his browser would pop up such a game advertisement. After all, he had never opened the browser on his mobile phone, and his mobile phone was always clean and there were no third-party advertising plug-ins.

At this time, the game advertisement has finished playing, and a download window pops up for him to download.

Su Lin didn't know how to play this kind of game. Although the game advertisement looked interesting, he knew that after downloading, it would only be other games, not what was described in the advertisement at all.

He subconsciously planned to quit the browser, clear the cache, and then communicate with the agent. If possible, he would book a house today, otherwise he would not even have a place to live.

He moved his fingers, but was surprised to find that he couldn't close the browser, and there was no option like 'x' or 'cancel' on the download window.

Could it be that my phone is really infected with a virus? Could it be that Grandpa Jun read some small website when he used my phone to surf the Internet?

While Su Lin was analyzing, the game on his phone had actually started to download. No operations could be performed on the phone, and the screen couldn't even be turned off. He could only watch the progress bar gradually grow.

Su Lin had no choice but to wait until he got out of the car to find a place to connect to the wireless network, use his laptop to contact the agent, and repair the phone at night.

He stretched out, leaned on the seat, and looked sideways at the hazy city outside the window. The rain was picked up by the wind, hitting the glass one after another, causing ripples.

Under the refraction of the ripples, the outline of the city becomes distorted, and the extension of the houses and streets is bent and deformed, no longer regular as before.

Listening to the rain in the afternoon always makes people feel sleepy, but he suddenly became energetic because he discovered something was wrong.

He is very sensitive to time and distance, and he often rides this No. 11 bus. Based on the time he got on the bus and the average speed, it is supposed to be the time to stop, but the bus is still running.

Drive straight forward.

Looking at the outside world through the rain-stained glass, he found that there were no other cars on the road and no pedestrians on the sidewalks on both sides!

Su Lin didn't panic, then turned around and looked around the inside of the bus.

There was no one inside the bus at this time, even the driver's seat was empty.

Inside the car, you can only hear the sound of dirty water being rolled up by the wheels, and the sound of rain hitting the glass and roof. There is a strange feeling of silence.

Su Lin didn't think that he was sick, just like he never thought that the supernatural phenomena he saw before were his hallucinations.

This time was different from the past few times. He had seen some weird things fighting from a distance before, but this time he was right in the middle of it.

【Ding--】

A clear beep sounded, and Su Lin took out his mobile phone from his pocket. The Shanhai game on it showed that the download was completed.

[The game is loading...]

【Please be prepared for strangers】

Facing this supernatural and strange phenomenon, Su Lin not only did not panic, but instead the corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously.

Yes, it's interesting, isn't it? It's just an inspiration.

He looked out the window again. Amidst the ticking sound of his cell phone, he seemed to feel that the distorted scenery outside the window was pulling him down deeper.

As the scene distorted, his consciousness gradually blurred. He reached out curiously to touch the glass, but could only touch the foam.

As the scene in front of me continued to change, the feeling of weightlessness became more and more obvious, and at the same time, a voice that could not distinguish between male and female began to be heard in my ears.

【Irregular number 1166400, welcome to Shanhai Game】

Amidst the noisy shuttle sound effects, a large amount of information poured into his mind. The feeling of weightlessness continued to increase, and then began to weaken after a period of time. Finally, when Su Lin's vision became clear again, the scene in front of him was no longer inside the No. 11 bus.

, but a gloomy dungeon.

Su Lin had a lot more information in his mind. Although he still didn't know the reason, he was pulled into a "game" called Shanhai Paradise.

His mobile phone and luggage were gone, which made him frown, because those were all his belongings. As a new-age drama artist who had trouble eating, he had always cherished his personal assets.

But he also knew that now was not the time to worry about that, the top priority was to understand the situation.

He clenched his fists, felt his body, looked at the changed clothes on his body, and immediately began to touch his face in a confirming manner. Through touch and excellent memory, he could judge that his appearance had not changed.

He is a writer and is very familiar with time travel and other novels. He is sure that this is his own body. If he hadn't just seen other people in the dungeon from the corner of his eye, he might have taken off his pants to confirm the shape and size of his second brother.

It is easier to intuitively judge whether it is your own body.

[Foreigner No. 1166400, please check your mission.]

The voice sounded again, and at the same time, Su Lin also saw a small cursor appear in the upper right corner of his field of vision. Like an instinct engraved in his bones, he opened the menu with his mind.

The first thing that caught his eye was the details of this game copy. The format made Su Lin couldn't help complaining that it really sounded like a game.

[Game type: Parallel mapping type]

[Novice Trial Copy: Strange Things in the Mountain Village]

[Difficulty level: lv.5～lv.9]

[Copy tendency: reasoning, fighting]

【story background:】

Spiritual energy revives, myths return, extraordinary power manifests in the world, people are frightened, accept it, and then become accustomed to it. The old order is being broken and a new order is being established.

Under the wheel of the new era, the ancient strange legends of mountain villages are also awakening in the shadows. No... maybe that legend has never disappeared.

[Main mission (first ring): regain freedom]

Mission content: Your current identity is a death row prisoner in the Lingwu Empire's Demon Suppression Department. You were supposed to be executed in three days. The warden will give all death row prisoners, including you, a chance. If you can pass the warden's test,

Then we can all leave here.

Please seize the opportunity to regain your freedom and leave prison.

Mission Difficulty: Normal~Death

Mission reward: Depending on the completion of the mission, the second round of the main mission will be opened, with a reward of 1,000 Shanhai coins, or forced return.

Failure penalty: none

[Warning: In this copy of the game, information about the Shanhai Game must not be disclosed to non-human intelligent beings in any form. Violators will be obliterated!]

It's propaganda fraud.

Where is the Kun I started with!?

After complaining in his mind, he checked the other function menus of Shanhai Game while observing the surrounding environment and other people. There were ten people in the dungeon including himself, but he didn't know if these were all the death row inmates in this prison.

knew.

Looking at the sanitary conditions of the dungeon, it was hard for Su Lin to imagine that he was in a 21st century prison. It was just like the gloomy dungeons he had seen in medieval movies, with a damp and rancid smell stirring crazily in his nasal cavity.

Everyone was wearing prison uniforms, some were generally clean, while others were dirty and worn. It seemed that they were imprisoned at different times. The prison uniform Su Lin was wearing was relatively new.

As a writer who could thrive in a mental hospital, Su Lin was not very receptive to the situation at hand. His first reaction when encountering this kind of thing was not panic and fear, but an inexplicable sense of joy.

He didn't want to admit that he was a middle school boy, but he had to say that he found the current situation so interesting that the corners of his mouth turned up unconsciously.

The information pouring into his mind gave him a rough understanding of the situation in this copy of the Shanhai game. If he had not been kidnapped and his brain was subjected to a brain-computer interface experiment by a mad scientist, then he might have really come to a parallel world, but here

It was selected as a game venue by Shanhai Games.

In the detailed column of the world background, he could see some of the historical process of China, which overlapped with what he learned about his own country's history, but in the end it embarked on a different development path because of the so-called spiritual energy recovery, such as
To be continued...