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Chapter 485 - 448: Incubation (4K)

Chapter 485: Chapter 448: Incubation (4K)

"Where should I start... let’s begin from the outskirts of the Secret Realm."

Li Cheng took off the sports camera from his body, connected it to the laptop and projector, projecting the recorded images onto the wall.

"After entering the Secret Realm, I encountered the unlucky falling Canadian lawyer Gary Hoy.

A Vietnamese woman holding a deformed baby, committing suicide by poison.

A facial recognition mutation patient who mistakenly killed their whole family. These three abnormal entities wandering on the outskirts of the Secret Realm are arranged in a hierarchical manner.

In other words, the more suffering endured during their lifetime, the greater the resentment, the stronger their power after death, and the larger their activity range."

Li Cheng pressed the projector’s remote, skipping through the footage of killing fellow comrades infected by the Insect Master, explaining: "Upon reaching the player’s defense, I requested a document from Fuding Hualong and discovered that all players involved in this event reached similar conclusions.

This makes sense, after all, that’s how it’s portrayed in horror movies.

By the way, if I were to die, I would definitely wear red clothes and shoes, drink poison, and jump into a wood chipper in the reservoir of the neighboring city at midnight during the Ghost Festival,

instantly becoming the most ferocious and pinnacle Ultra Mega Cup Max Ghost King."

??? Are you stacking buffs here?

Zhangsun Yao had a peculiar expression, listening quietly to Li Cheng while secretly pulling out paper, hiding it in her sleeve, ready to act at any moment.

"However, there’s one problem, whether it’s Gary Hoy or the Vietnamese woman, their death time was long before the Killing Field arrived. This is interesting."

Li Cheng snapped his fingers, chuckling lightly: "Two possibilities: one, the core of the Secret Realm, that is, the cardboard box, concocted fierce ghosts from thin air based on written records and news reports from the real world.

Considering the Vietnamese woman died lonely and uncared for, leaving no traces, this can be ruled out.

Two, all the fierce ghosts are the real deal, the original ones.

But they were first ’awakened’ by the Killing Field and then absorbed by the Secret Realm."

Hmm?

Zhangsun Yao frowned slightly, somewhat unable to react, but fortunately, Gray Rain had already raised his hand ahead of her, uprightly said: "Report, sir! I didn’t understand!"

"For example, the Killing Field on Earth’s real world will issue Regular Tasks. Some of these tasks are often based in places like haunted castles, abandoned hospitals, deserted villages.

To increase difficulty, the system will ’awaken’ ghosts in these places as part of the task composition.

Thus, although the Vietnamese woman and other ghosts’ deaths were before the arrival of the Killing Field, their awakening was after its arrival, the two don’t contradict."

Li Cheng casually explained: "Returning to the topic, what’s the purpose of the cardboard box digging out ghosts from the Killing Field System and absorbing them into the Secret Realm?

Creating a ghost army? Unlikely, the ghosts act independently without any organization.

Spirit purification? Also unlikely, the ghosts are trapped in their death, redemption is out of the question.

The most probable explanation is ruled out, leaving only one— the cardboard box being the core of the Secret Realm doesn’t have a complete individual consciousness, only instinctively absorbs wrongful death ghosts."

Zhangsun Yao was startled upon hearing, instinctively thinking, isn’t this natural? An ownerless Hidden Room operates automatically according to program.

Wait a minute.

Her pupil contracted, suddenly understanding Li Cheng’s implication—this Hidden Room has an owner!

"That’s right, at this moment, the owner of the Hidden Room is Cai Anjie." Li Cheng grinned, "which is the one hiding in the cardboard box."

Gray Rain had a solemn expression, pondered: "The day Cai Anjie appeared as the Secret Realm holder, the entire player circle was in an uproar, everyone discussing who Cai Anjie is."

"It’s embarrassing, isn’t it?"

Li Cheng rolled his eyes, lightly flicked Gray Rain’s forehead, and continued: "On August 28, 24th year, the domestic officially stopped the international adoption plan,

due to domestic economic development, orphan numbers reduced, and increased willingness for domestic adoption, formally ending the transnational migration of over 160,000 children.

Tracing back, one aspect is that decades ago, domestic orphanages housed many children with innate disabilities, with a monthly maintenance fee of only 120 RMB per person, the 30,000 USD donation fee paid by foreign families was the lifeline to operations.

On the other hand, at that time, joining the WTO and participating in international division of labor, various domestic circles held unrealistic illusions about foreign countries. Accepting the narrative of domestic and foreign public intellectuals that ’international adoption equals life reversal.’

But in reality, the reported abuse probability for internationally adopted children is 2.7 times that of domestic children, while the conviction rate for perpetrators is less than 15%.

Due to regulatory oversight, numerous children died inexplicably, vanished, were violated, and some even were trafficked, organ trade."

"Oh, oh, I know this."

Gray Rain raised his hand: "I watched on TikTok, that American director Woody Allen married an Asian adopted daughter 35 years younger."

"That’s right."

Li Cheng nodded: "Cai Anjie is one of the unfortunate ones in the international adoption plan. She was adopted abroad, tortured to death by foster parents, and after death, her soul accidentally fell into the Killing Field, becoming the holder of the Hidden Room unconsciously.

The complete function of the Hidden Room is to shelter deceased souls, purify them, allowing them to exist long-term in the minor dimension created by the cardboard box.

Cai Anjie is very kind, even in death, she didn’t transform into a fierce ghost out of resentment, but instinctively absorbed ghosts as unfortunate as her.

However, due to the dissipation of individual will, she couldn’t proceed further to purify the souls.

Her will, or soul, split into you."