【Attention: There are only two days left until next Monday. All One-Star and Two-Star difficulty Daily Dungeons can submit applications to open normally.】
【Gentle Reminder: In the early stages of world connection, the total number of players is relatively small. After One-Star Daily Dungeon applications are approved, a small portion of dungeons may not be assigned any players. If this happens, please wait patiently for the next time.】
【Gentle Reminder: Once applications for Two-Star difficulty Daily Dungeons are approved, high-talent players will be uniformly assigned to enter them. However, in the early stages of world connection, the number of such players is extremely small. Approved dungeons will be selected at random. If yours is not chosen, please wait patiently for the next time.】
【Two-Star Daily Dungeon bosses, please pay attention to the player capacity you set when submitting your application. It is best to keep it under five players. Remember to act within your limits.】
After Zuo Lin'an finished reading the messages and confirmed that no others were sent, he exited the interface. He glanced at the time on his phone: October 11th.
Indeed, there were only two days left until Monday.
“Youyou, my dungeon still needs about ten days of finishing touches, so I can't open it for now. But since we've transitioned to a new world, your dungeon should be unsealed. Do you want to try opening it?”
Xu Youyou was playing with his phone, a look of conflict on his face.
He had originally planned to gather as many Contribution points as possible during the Wuxia World phase to get his second rule, hoping to become a Two-Star dungeon boss as soon as possible.
But he hadn't expected that due to a moment of carelessness...
No, due to a moment of bad luck, his dungeon had been sealed.
“I...”
“I'm definitely opening it. After all, I still need to gather Contribution.”
“I have eighty-two Contribution points now, so I'm less than twenty points short. If I'm lucky, maybe I can get them all in just one run.”
Zuo Lin'an nodded silently, not catching the slight hesitation in Xu Youyou's voice.
“True.”
“In the early stages, many players selected by specter dungeons won't know the basic rules inside, like how players can't kill each other, nor can they kill NPCs.”
“Maybe some will think that if they kill someone inside a specter dungeon, no one will know once they return to the real world.”
Xu Youyou gave a vague response but didn't say anything else.
His expression looked a bit off, as if he had lost his usual playfulness.
Only now did Zuo Lin'an notice his strange state.
Given his personality, once a new world appeared, he would definitely have a lively discussion with him about it.
But he had barely spoken since earlier.
Did something go wrong?
Wait.
He remembered that this world was... a paranormal world.
Did "paranormal" mean ghosts?
Ghosts and specters were definitely different.
Ghosts were transformed from souls.
Due to deep resentment or unresolved obsessions, they refused to reincarnate, lingering in the human world to become ghosts—commonly known as wandering souls and wild ghosts.
Zuo Lin'an suddenly thought of a possibility.
He then carefully observed Xu Youyou's expression.
“Say, could it be that you're... afraid of ghosts?”
Like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, Xu Youyou jumped straight up from his chair.
“What nonsense are you talking?!”
“I'm a specter! How could I possibly be afraid of ghosts?!”
“Don't think you can slander me just because I call you Brother An.”
Zuo Lin'an kept staring at him. As Xu Youyou spoke, his voice grew softer and softer, and his eyes even began to dart around.
He turned and ran.
“Uh, anyway, I need to go back and prepare for the new world's first dungeon. I won't bother you anymore. Bye!”
Zuo Lin'an watched Xu Youyou rush into the white mist and shook his head helplessly.
“With him like this, is he going to fail his very first dungeon run?”
Feng Xingyun spoke up at the right moment.
“Young Master, does 'paranormal' refer to...”
Zuo Lin'an gave a brief explanation, and only then did he understand.
“So it refers to fierce ghosts and resentful spirits? In my original world, many novels wrote about romances between humans and ghosts, but I've never seen a real ghost.”
Zuo Lin'an said, “If you haven't seen one, then they didn't exist.”
Feng Xingyun pondered for a moment before asking, “Then in this paranormal world, ghosts must definitely exist. Are these ghosts the same category as you, Young Master?”
Zuo Lin'an waved his hand.
“Of course not.”
“Ghosts practice cultivation by absorbing negative energy like yin qi, gradually growing stronger. As long as they are powerful enough, they can kill whoever they want.”
“However, they are also countered by many things.”
Feng Xingyun actually knew a bit about this.
“For instance, peach wood swords, seven-star swords, black dog blood, or rooster blood?”
Zuo Lin'an nodded. “Yes, exactly. On the other hand, a specter like me kills through rules. Aside from talents and specter items, there's no way to counter us.”
“Of course, unless the opponent becomes a Specter Master and clashes with my Death Rule.”
Feng Xingyun understood.
“So, will the ghosts of the paranormal world also be brought into specter dungeons as players?”
This question hit the nail on the head. In truth, Zuo Lin'an didn't know either.
He immediately took out his phone and sent a message to the four-person subgroup.
【Zuo Lin'an: Will the ghosts of the paranormal world become players?】
【Bai Yuan: Yes, I just asked.】
【Zuo Lin'an: Since ghosts exist in this paranormal world, does that mean there's also an Underworld, a Heavenly Court, or gods?】
If they existed, wouldn't it be highly troublesome if these gods and ghosts became players in the future?
【Bai Yuan: There is no Underworld. After people in this world die, their souls directly reincarnate, though they can also turn into ghosts. As for gods, there are none of those either.】
【Bai Yuan: Although there are no gods, there are many practitioners, such as Daoist priests and Buddhist monks.】
【Zuo Lin'an: So, do these Daoist and Buddhist techniques have any effect on us specters?】
【Bai Yuan: Of course not!】
【Bai Yuan: We are specters. Only rules, talents, or specter items can deal with us. This is the underlying rule of the supernatural world, with the exception of the World Furnace.】
【Zuo Lin'an: That's good.】
Earlier, when he told Feng Xingyun that the methods used by people in the paranormal world to deal with ghosts were useless against specters, it was only his guess. Now that he had received a definitive answer, his mind was at ease.
【Bai Yuan: Is your dungeon ready?】
【Zuo Lin'an: There are about ten days of finishing touches left. I can only wait until the Monday after next.】
【Bai Yuan: Then you're going to miss out. You should know that in the very early stages of connecting to a new world, many players don't know the situation and will often go on a killing spree in dungeons.】
【Bai Yuan: Many dungeon bosses can obtain a lot of unsolvable specters in the early stages and make a massive profit. If you don't want to miss out, you should quickly urge the construction team.】
【Zuo Lin'an: But my dungeon is already a Two-Star Daily Dungeon. If I apply to open it in the early stages, those assigned to me will all be players with special talents.】
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