I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 685 - 685 684. Blizzard Villa_1

Chapter 685: 684. Blizzard Villa_1 Chapter 685: 684. Blizzard Villa_1 Zheng Li, of course, didn’t know about the peculiar incidents happening across the ocean.

He yawned, feeling fatigued by the long journey, which left this university student weary. The gloomy haze outside obscured the sunlight, casting a melancholic mood.

He glanced in the direction of the trunk where his suitcase lay quietly, holding “Morning Star.”

A month after “Morning Star”‘s release, “Night of Summoning Spirits” had yet to be cleared by anyone. However, players had still discovered many clues, and some even resorted to extreme measures, calling NPCs to their rooms and saving after every sentence spoken—nearly documenting every dialogue in its entirety.

In the face of such complex circumstances, finding a way to clear the game was truly too difficult.

Even though players could relive the cycles repeatedly, rewinding time, and even having innumerable “clones” synchronously advancing globally, solving the problems was still too daunting a task.

Therefore, Zheng Li decided to participate in this gathering.

The meetup was organized by people on the gaming forum, with a bit of an intention for an in-person meeting. Several netizens brought their equipment to a villa on the outskirts of Yannan, where they planned to play together for a few days in an attempt to conquer the game.

To put it plainly, it was just a gathering to play.

“We’re almost there,”

said the taxi driver. Zheng Li looked ahead. After a turn, the villa appeared before him.

One couldn’t deny the impressive visual impact of a villa nestled within the mountains.

The villa’s architecture was Western in style, likely an old foreign mansion constructed in the past. This villa community had only about a dozen or so houses, and cars could only park at a lot at the base of the mountain. Zheng Li had to walk the remaining distance himself.

Fortunately, it was a relatively gentle slope. Pulling his suitcase, Zheng Li quickly reached the villa’s front door. He looked around at the neighboring villas, which seemed uninhabited—probably a case of the rich’s whims, buying properties only to leave them empty.

“Are you ‘Dark Executioner’?”

The person waiting at the door asked as soon as he saw Zheng Li.

“…Yes.”

Zheng Li instantly felt somewhat embarrassed. If only he had known, he would’ve chosen a more normal forum ID. The pseudonym registered during his years of teenage enthusiasm now sounded like a public execution.

“I’m ‘Azure Red Lotus,’. Besides ‘Zin’ and ‘Char-grilled Salt and Pepper Seal,’ everyone else has already arrived,”

said the man, leading Zheng Li into the villa.

Contrary to the exterior, the villa’s interior was quite modern with a certainty that it had been resided in within the recent years. In the living room, there were several people seated—men and women. Some were immersed in “Morning Star,” presumably already exploring “Soul Summoning Night,” others were watching TV, which was broadcasting news about the scarcity of foreigners. Still others were eating chips and playing on their phones.

“This is ‘Enthusiastic Citizen Mr. Hei.’ Thanks to him, we were able to secure the villa,”

the man pointed to the one engrossed in “Morning Star.”

This place was said to be Mr. Hei’s uncle’s house. His uncle worked abroad and didn’t reside here, leaving it for Mr. Hei to enjoy during his holidays. Normally, a housekeeper would come for cleaning and cooking, and today was no different.

“Frankly, a villa left behind by some foreign uncle in the middle of nowhere tends to have big problems,”

Zheng Li said with certainty.

He had seen countless such scenarios, and if it were to suddenly start pouring rain from the sky, causing flash floods and landslides to trap them, that would really be the icing on the cake.

And then, if a murder were to happen, with a killer among us or something… tsk-tsk.

After getting acquainted for a while, as afternoon turned to early evening and the sky grew dark in the mountains, there was still someone missing.

“Did ‘Char-grilled Salt and Pepper Seal’ really get charcoal-grilled or what? Why hasn’t he arrived? No word in the group chat either,”

muttered the one called ‘Zin.’

“Come, help prepare the meat,”

said Zheng Li. They planned to barbecue in the villa’s yard that evening, and there were enough ingredients in the freezer to last several days. Zheng Li was currently wielding a knife, cutting the ingredients.

“You have impressive knife skills, ‘Dark Executioner.’ Are you a chef?”

asked someone watching Zheng Li skillfully separate the bone from the meat, removing the muscle’s tendons and fat as if he were a professional chef.

“Just call me by my name; I’m not a chef. I just tend to deal with this kind of thing pretty often,”

Zheng Li, blushing with embarrassment, turned his face away as he spoke.

“What do you do?”

Everyone was puzzled, what profession would understand the structure of ingredients like a chef?

“I studied forensic science.”

Zheng Li answered.

“…”

The scene became somewhat awkward for a moment.

Indeed, chicken legs and beef steaks are also animal carcasses, which forensic scientists deal with too.

It made sense.

While everyone was seriously preparing the barbecue, suddenly, a clap of thunder sounded.

In the blink of an eye, the sky, which had been on the verge of tears, now shed a flurry of snowflakes.

The snow quickly turned into a heavy fall, and together with the cold wind of late January in Yannan, it quickly formed a blizzard.

Visible to the naked eye, the roads were covered with snow, and the parking lot below disappeared into the snowstorm.

“Damn, what’s going on, why is there such heavy snow all of a sudden?”

Someone hastened to change the TV channel, only to see that the weather forecast was issuing an emergency blizzard notice, and over the next 72 hours, Yannan would be enveloped in snow.

“The mobile network is so bad, I hope the wired internet doesn’t cut out, and we don’t lose power.”

[Enthusiastic Citizen Mr. Hei]picked up his phone to check the situation, while with others, hurriedly brought the barbecue grills that had been set up in the yard back inside.

After receiving a phone call, his face showed signs of distress.

“This is bad, I contacted the driver who drove me up here, and he says now the snow has cut off the roads, the car can’t make it up, we have to wait for the snow to stop and the roads to be cleared before we can go up the mountain.”

“Are we trapped here?”

“Damn, this isn’t a perfect replica of the game.”

“Uh, just to be clear, although I have done some minor bad things in the past, I haven’t committed any serious crimes, so don’t mess with me.”

“How many days can we last with the food we have, are we going to starve?”

“Everybody quiet down.”

At this time, it was Zheng Li who was the calmest. He called out, and everyone else looked at each other, then turned to look at him.

“Did you hear someone knocking on the door?”

The person who first welcomed Zheng Li suddenly spoke up.

Everyone listened intently.

Knock, knock, knock —

A series of knocks sounded, and everyone looked toward the door, not daring to move.

Only Zheng Li, with a kitchen knife in his hand, approached the door.

“Who’s there?”

Zheng Li mustered the courage to ask.

“I’m ‘Char-grilled Salt and Pepper Seal’.”

The person outside answered, sounding like a woman.

Zheng Li immediately opened the door.

“Why have you only just arrived? With this heavy snow, you shouldn’t have come!”

He saw, standing at the doorstep, a slender girl carrying a small suitcase, and the girl’s appearance was strikingly similar to the woman Zheng Li had seen in a recent dream, the one hiding her face with a fan.

In an instant, Zheng Li felt as if he had fallen into an ice pit, watching her move the suitcase inside, revealing a sweet smile on her face.

Zheng Li felt his heart and lungs stop.