I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 758 - 758 757. Virtual Strange Object_1

Chapter 758: 757. Virtual Strange Object_1 Chapter 758: 757. Virtual Strange Object_1 After thinking it over, Lu Ban picked up the blue Lulu doll that had fallen to the ground.

Although from the monster’s perspective, this was its excrement, from Lu Ban’s perspective, it was just an ordinary, funny-looking doll.

Lu Ban sniffed it but didn’t detect any strange smell.

“Should I try tasting it?”

In the end, he did not follow through with this action.

Having drawn a conclusion from its scent alone, there was no need for further experimentation.

“If this is what’s left after the monster has fed on fear, then at the beginning…”

Lu Ban remembered the very first mission he undertook, when he had checked under the bed and found such a doll there.

He had properly disposed of it in the designated recycling bin, but halfway through the night, after the heartbeats counting game, it reappeared under the bed, as though it had crawled there by itself.

Originally, Lu Ban thought this mysterious object might have crawled back from the trash to find him, but now it seemed that due to the monster having fed on his fear, it had defecated another.

The excrement seemed to vary depending on the type of fear consumed; for some, it might be spiders or insects, for others, a test paper with a zero grade, and there may even be credit card bills or a mother’s feather duster.

“Is this the kind of monster one encounters on [Mortal] difficulty?”

Lu Ban thought that such a creature produces and devours fear but relies on humans, never pushing them to their demise. Thus, [Travelers] and “No-return Alley” must operate on similar principles.

Having clarified this, Lu Ban felt that his investigation of this task was probably about eighty or ninety percent complete.

As for what exactly this creature was, he didn’t think it necessary to dwell too much on it, as it was probably just a distorted set of rules inadvertently created by some form of pollution.

With this thought, Lu Ban stumbled upon a problem.

This creature could extract fear from Lu Ban, who had already adventured through the Foreign Domain, and also from the players inside “Morning Star”, even though, in reality, the players might have never encountered it.

This indicated that the rules of the bizarre entities could still take effect even if they were not part of the real world.

Just as if Lu Ban brought the Horror Cinema into the game, the players would be subject to the same constraints and potentially get killed by these peculiar entities indefinitely. However, because it’s a virtual world and they were under Lu Ban’s protection, the players wouldn’t die. Instead, they could attempt to analyze and discover the Rules.

Furthermore, since these strange entities are triggered by virtual rules, they might not necessarily benefit from them.

The Wardrobe Monster, having devoured virtual fear in a virtual world, would find itself with nothing upon returning to reality.

The Horror Cinema might kill someone in the virtual world, but in reality, the person doesn’t die. Relying on absorbing life to grow and thrive, it would find itself having consumed nothing but air.

If these assumptions held true, then Lu Ban could certainly try to find all the curious entities of this world and throw them into the virtual world, having the numerous players discover their rules and weaknesses. Meanwhile, back in reality, he could control and contain them.

After all, Lu Ban was only one person, and with the obligation of the Silent Lands’ tasks, diverting attention to these matters would also take a substantial amount of time.

Moreover, Lu Ban noted that when entities like the Wardrobe Monster fed on human fear, they would cause a certain degree of Pollution. Of course, this Pollution was very slight, comparable to a person with a timid disposition getting a shock from a super scary movie, and it had a threshold. People like Lu Ban, who were not scared at all, were completely unaffected.

Therefore, employing these eerie entities to achieve a subtle and gradual Pollution seemed like a viable path.

Upon reaching this conclusion, Lu Ban decided to conduct another experiment.

It’d be great to catch one or two bizarre items, find a way to make them cooperate, and invite them over to sit in the “Morning Star,” chat, and have some tea.

Unfortunately, Lu Ban didn’t know what [Travelers] actually was, nor did he know where “No-return Alley” was. The two tasks he set up for the players were all fabricated by himself.

He decided to search online. With the world being so vast, there must be some places steeped in supernatural legends. Even if nine out of ten such places were fake, surely there would be one that was real, right?

Entering “supernatural locations” into the search engine, Lu Ban quickly came up with several pages of search results.

He looked at the first entry, “Nanhua Private Renji Hospital, a hospital that devours lives.”

Lu Ban clicked on it.

“Walking through the corridors of Nanhua Private Renji Hospital, you will hear faint sobbing. On rainy nights, cries of babies come from certain wards. If you search carefully, you will see red stains suddenly spread across the originally white hospital beds…”

Lu Ban read with relish for a while, feeling it was quite thrilling, although it was not quite the same as his experience.

It seemed that after the hospital was demolished, some new ghost stories emerged.

He then looked at the second entry, “Once you go in, you can’t come out. An amusement park where you repeat the same day, forever.”

Lu Ban continued to click through.

“Amidst the mist, there lies an amusement park. Once you enter, you are trapped, playing forever without realizing the passage of time. Be wary of walking teddy bears, and never buy souvenirs…”

The fidelity of this one was still okay, and Lu Ban was quite satisfied.

After looking around, he found that most urban legends on the first two pages were adaptations of his own work. Some were exaggerated to extremes, a dance of demons, while others strove to convey the atmosphere, brimming with an eerie chill.

They were decent as modern online supernatural literature.

Unfortunately, they were not what Lu Ban was looking for.

He continued to flip through the pages, and soon, Lu Ban came across a forum post.

“The haunted house opposite my community is going to be listed for a judicial auction, any bigshots want to give it a try?”

The post briefly repeated the content of the title and included a news article.

The news said that the villa was originally the property of a businessman. However, one day, the businessman caught his wife and her lover in the act. In a fit of rage, he killed his wife and her lover.

Up to this point, the case was just a common murder, which could be seen anywhere. But then, to dodge the legal consequences, the businessman began to dismember the bodies of his wife and her lover in his own bathroom and discard them into the river in stages. If it wasn’t for his final slip-up, it might have never been discovered.

What’s more terrifying was that the businessman actually reported his wife missing to the police and joined the police in searching; even when the police were searching upstairs, the two bodies were hidden downstairs.

Such audacious behavior caused a great deal of controversy and stirred a lot of commotion.

In the post, apart from this piece of news, the owner also stated that the villa had been the site of death before, and that those who lived there, one way or another, would encounter some issues, making it a genuine haunted house!

Having read this, Lu Ban decided to take a look.

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