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Chapter 208 Chaotic Obsession

This was the first time the Peephole Strange Creature had directly pushed the door open and walked out. Enjoy exclusive adventures from My Virtual Library Empire

The movements of the man in black had never made any sound, not even from the somewhat old display cabinet door, which inevitably makes noise when opened or closed. At this moment, it still eerily made not the slightest sound.

The Peephole Strange Creature stood in front of the display cabinet, still turned around, facing the cabinet and with its back to the outside, moving closely towards Yan Junze's direction.

When it neared the edge of a cabinet, the Peephole Strange Creature immediately made a turn, pressing against the side of the cabinet, and then its figure disappeared.

The next time it appeared, it was already on the right side of another display cabinet, as if it had just turned a corner and was meant to arrive there all along.

In front of the equipment room.

Yan Junze's gaze had been fixed on the position behind the laboratory door, although the place was dark, a careful observation seemed to reveal a figure standing in the corner, not moving.

The person who had attacked him just now was definitely a corpse because at the last moment her fingers had touched Yan Junze's skin, making him feel a wave of coldness.

Moreover, the woman's face was rotten, no living person would look like this.

However, the Spacetime Atlas in his mind did not issue any task prompts, which was highly unusual. It should be known that the corpse had been attacking him, and a strangeness would not just attack a person without any obsession.

This did not make sense—could it be that the purpose of the strangeness was simply to kill upon seeing someone?

So Yan Junze was certain that the female corpse did have an obsession.

The Spacetime Atlas not automatically popping out task prompts was not just once or twice, sometimes it was influenced by the environment, sometimes it related to the strangeness itself.

After thinking for a moment, he remembered what had happened the last time at Bao Jie's aunt Bao Wenjing's house, so he simply activated "Perception of Strange Events".

Indeed, the moment the energy spread out, he immediately received feedback in his mind.

[Task Name: Where is my child?

Task Level: Hair-raising (Low);

Task Background: Shen Wanqiu's child went missing. In the three months after the disappearance, she has been searching tirelessly but to no avail, with the police also having no news to offer. Shen Wanqiu gradually began to lose her mind until everyone in the neighborhood knew that she had gone mad for her child;

Task Description: Let her know where her child is;

Task Reward: 1100 Different Dimension Energy points;

Task Penalty: Death;

Task Prompts: 1. The Evil Spirit cannot be locked down; 2. The Evil Spirit is highly aggressive;

Note: What you see appears to be a corpse, but in fact, she is not.]

"So she's here to find her child?" Yan Junze nodded, but then a doubt emerged, "But if you're looking for your child, why attack me?"

No sooner had the thought arisen than another task information popped up in his mind, causing him to freeze, his face full of horror as he stared at the task that had just appeared.

[Task Name: Kill Yan Junze;

Task Level: Hair-raising (Medium);

Task Background: Shen Wanqiu only remembered entering a live streamer's room where the man gave her a glass of water, and then, she began to feel dazed. After that, she couldn't stop eating, consuming food incessantly. Shen Wanqiu remembered consuming a lot of mucus, sticky and foul-smelling, yet it made her appetite grow.

She even consumed a strangeness, until at last, in the food she consumed, the name "Yan Junze" appeared;

Task Description: Escape Shen Wanqiu's pursuit by any means necessary;

Task Reward: 1300 Different Dimension Energy points;

Task Penalty: Death;

Task Prompts: 1. The Evil Spirit cannot be locked down; 2. Perhaps this is not her true intention;]

Note: "If you don't take her down, or strip her of her ability to attack, she will chase you endlessly."]

When Yan Junze saw the second task, he was completely stunned.

He had never imagined that the arrival of this female corpse was actually for him.

However, the task prompt was very clear, based on the capture of Shen Wanqiu's obsession, it turned out she had entered the room of a host and was then murdered.

"Host?" Yan Junze paused for a moment; suddenly, he thought of someone.

Cheng Jingting!?

So far, the only host Yan Junze had met and dealt with was him, and their first conversation had been rather unpleasant.

And before he encountered that green child, he had spoken over the phone exclusively with Cheng Jingting. Could it be that this guy had tracked his location at that time?

But was it simply because he had not agreed to join him that he sought to completely eliminate him?

But then again, on second thought, these things were unclear. In the vastness of the woods, various birds exist; some people are narrow-minded, perhaps annoyed not only because he didn't join them, but perhaps also jealous of the strangeness videos he recorded.

Or could it be... coveting his special physique? After all, looking at it now, this guy seemed to be able to nurture spirits.

There were many speculations, and any of them could be possible.

But if it indeed proved to be related to this host named Cheng Jingting, with a target in mind, Yan Junze would start considering how to deal with this guy.

And it was made very clear in the task description that Shen Wanqiu had consumed a strangeness.

Yan Junze had just heard this from Zhang Xiaomo; after a zombie eats a strangeness, it becomes something called "Corpse Spirits," which is more terrifying, and obviously, Shen Wanqiu had already become one.

As he was deep in thought, he suddenly jerked violently, his eyes bulging and his mouth gaping open.

Because at this moment, in his mind, the third task prompt popped up again.

[Task Name: Revenge;

Task Level: Hair-raising (High);

Task Background: Shen Wanqiu was murdered, and she suffered greatly, craving death deep within her subconscious. But her assailant was formidable, leaving her powerless to retaliate, turning her into a walking corpse. She yearned for freedom, to break free from these invisible shackles, desiring to seize the one who murdered her, to feed on their flesh, to drink their blood;

Task Description: Help her exact revenge, or take revenge on her behalf;

Task Reward: 1500 Different Dimension Energy points;

Task Punishment: Unknown;

Task Tip: 1. The Evil Spirit cannot be locked down; 2. Shen Wanqiu's target is very strong; 3. Revenge may be a long-term task, or it might be completed in an instant;

Note: Given the uniqueness of this task, the Atlas activates the "Obsession Storage" feature. This task may pre-store the energy rewards of the completed obsession in the Atlas, and upon task completion, the corresponding energy rewards will be obtained.]

The emergence of the third task had completely exceeded Yan Junze's expectations; he had not imagined that just a female corpse could lead to three different obsessions, thereby bringing about three different tasks.

The task levels of this female corpse were surprisingly high, and the methods of completing the tasks had also changed from before.

The three tasks, the first [Where is my child?] represented the obsession that the female corpse had been searching for in life; the second [Kill Yan Junze] had an obvious purpose, targeting him.

The third [Revenge] was the female corpse's own hatred towards the person who had murdered her. Now, it looked very likely that the person was Cheng Jingting, the one who had caused Shen Wanqiu to become what she was now.

But the difficulty of completing the third task was the greatest, reaching the level of "Hair-raising (High)."

Of course, this did not mean that Shen Wanqiu, now a zombie ghost, had become completely stronger than the Back-faced Woman. Rather, her desire for revenge had increased the level of difficulty of the task to this extent.