"Alright, everyone, don't panic yet. Take a moment to think about it. It must have embedded all of this into your minds."
Within the divine god's protective barrier, after imitating Zhang Jie's classic entrance, Wu Xian felt no need to tease the loli-obsessed protagonist in front of him anymore. Instead, he waited for everyone to wake up and began to introduce the basic settings of the divine god's space, all while conveniently gaining 100 reward points for free.
"Are you saying that we are now like in 'The Matrix', where our consciousness enters the game, and we can return to our bodies after the game is over or if we die in the game?"
A plain-looking chubby young man, sitting next to Zheng Zha, a white-collar youth... The protagonist, with a mocking tone, clearly disbelieves Wu Xian's claims.
"I'm not sure about the consciousness, but I advise you not to think that way."
Wu Xian looked at the chubby young man and sincerely warned, "Before coming here, I had other teammates. But in the previous horror movie 'Final Destination', they all died without exception, and their deaths were extremely cruel."
"Even I was left with only half a life in the end. If not for the divine god's function of repairing the body, I probably wouldn't have been able to see you all this time."
"Yawn! How do you know they have to die? Maybe they've already gone back to their own bodies and are living a carefree life! I think this is just an unlaunched virtual reality game."
The chubby young man continued to sneer disdainfully, and the people around him were also thoughtful, unsure of which claim to believe.
"Do as you wish. If that's the case, it's a good thing for you."
Wu Xian smiled faintly, not bothering to care about the chubby young man's hostile attitude.
"Firstly, he only cosplayed Zhang Jie, not the real Zhang Jie. He doesn't have the pressure from a half-guide, so naturally, there isn't as much animosity."
Secondly... the dead are revered. What's the point in being so picky with someone who is almost dead? He isn't a small-minded person."
Just then, someone from the group suddenly asked, "Sir... you just said there's nothing that can't be exchanged in the divine god's space. Does that mean we can also use reward points to return to the real world?"
The speaker was the only female present at the scene, the four-stage gene lock strength legend, Zhan Lan, who was rumored to have been killed by stone fragments. She was also the future controller of the Xiao State's Team's spiritual power.
As described in the novel, she was a beautiful girl with a great personality, around the same age as Wu Xian, in her late twenties or early thirties. She wore glasses and had a scholarly demeanor, which was very fitting for her identity as a novelist.
Wu Xian looked at her slightly and nodded, saying, "Very well, there is such an option for exchange in the divine god's space, but it requires 50,000 reward points."
"50,000 points... much?"
Not quite understanding the pricing in the divine god's space, Zhan Lan swallowed her saliva and asked cautiously.
"Okay."
Wu Xian shrugged his shoulders and spoke in a very casual tone, "Let's take this horror movie as an example. As long as you survive until you return to the divine god's space, you can get 1000 reward points. The same goes for each horror movie afterwards."
"In other words, starting now, you need to survive fifty horror movies without exchanging anything or losing points before you can return to the real world."
"..."
Zhan Lan fell silent, having a good logical thinking ability as a novelist, she naturally understood that Wu Xian's claim that such a thing was impossible to achieve.
Surviving in the world of horror movies might be possible once or twice due to luck, but over a long period, without using reward points to strengthen oneself and buy equipment, it would be impossible to endure.
"Of course, earning 1000 points per horror movie is just the basic reward. You can also make extra money in the horror movie world..."
As the crowd fell silent, Wu Xian diligently fulfilled the senior member's task, sharing his experience on how to survive and score points in the divine god's space, offering a glimmer of hope to the group for returning to the real world, though this hope was faintly untenable.
Wu Xian quickly answered everything he needed to say and the questions from the few, then seeing that there was still a lot of time left, he began to introduce himself.
"Okay, there are about five minutes left before the story officially starts. Before that, everyone does a self-introduction. This will be helpful for future teamwork."
Wu Xian smiled slightly and tucked the desert eagle he was holding into the holster on his waist: "My name is Wu Xian, mouth-tian Wu, envious of the envied, 23 years old this year... So far, I have survived through three horror movie scenarios, making me a seasoned player."
"My name is Zheng Zha, Zheng Chenggong's Zheng, Nezha's Zha."
Zheng Zha, the protagonist who didn't have much chance to speak, replied with a slight bitter smile, "My occupation is a company manager. Before coming here, I did complain about the monotony of the real world, where it felt like I was rotting day by day. So I wanted to find some excitement... However, this excitement here seems to be too intense."
"Indeed, it's too intense."
Zhan Lan criticized it, then began to introduce herself: "My name is Zhan Lan, Jian Tianyou's Jian, and Lan of the wind-powered rainbow. I am a novelist..."
"Mou Gang, a freight truck driver..."
"Lǐ Xiāoyì, a senior high school student..."
In just a few minutes, several people introduced their backgrounds, and Wu Xian quietly watched it all, finding it very interesting. He felt like he was in a scene from a novel adapted into a web series, and he had the urge to live stream it.
Just then, he noticed that the car was beginning to slow down gradually, so he quickly put aside this bizarre idea, slapped his palms together, and interrupted the chubby young man who was about to speak.
"Alright, the time is almost up. Be ready to follow them."
"Remember what I told you. Don't change the storyline easily. You haven't gained that ability yet."
"Also, do not mention topics related to the divine god in front of those movie characters. If they hear it, ten points will be deducted for each sentence. If you don't want your scores to be wiped out for no reason, just keep your mouth shut in the future."
"Lastly, I hope you can all survive and return to the divine god's space with me."
"..."
A moment later, the car finally came to a halt. Following that, the dozen or so foreign mercenaries aboard gripped their guns and cautiously stuck their heads out, with Alice and two other male characters from the plot following behind them.
At the same time, the divine god's protective barrier had vanished, but Wu Xian didn't rush to follow. Instead, in the puzzled eyes of Zheng Zha and others, he walked to the end of the carriage as if searching for something.
That's right, he was looking for the first prize that most fan-made protagonist must grab - the metal box containing T virus and T virus vaccine.
This item is worth at least one D-level side quest and several hundred reward points in the divine god's space. It can also help unlock gene locks and has an effect of assisting its activation. Not taking it means losing several hundred million, and being ridiculed by netizens as an idiot.
But if he took it, not to mention the inconvenience of carrying such a heavy box, which would make him more vulnerable in a world filled with zombies, just dealing with those mercenaries alone would be a challenge.
After all, they're not blind. If they see a suspicious box suddenly appearing in your hand, they will definitely check and ask you about it. If they find out that you can't explain it, they might even kill you by accident.
Fortunately, this wasn't a problem for Wu Xian.
It's not that his strength is so great that he doesn't take those mercenaries seriously. Rather, after surviving "Scream," he had already exchanged a storage item from the divine god. Now, as long as he walked near the box, he could store it away in the storage item, completely undetected by others.
