Quick Transmigration: Underdog Turns out to be Untouchable

Chapter 1000: Chapter 911: Terror Queen 7

The two people were even more surprised at this moment at how long Lan Shuangshuang had been out, and she had already solved the cold problem. Without a doubt, she must have captured the ghost.

Li Meng had a slightly excited expression as he looked at Zhong Junyu, ”I never thought she’d be this powerful, Brother Junyu. We’re going to make a fortune this time, guiding such an impressive newcomer, the reward will definitely be substantial.”

After saying that, Li Meng pouted and glanced over at the four newcomers still stupidly huddled together, avoiding her and Brother Junyu. They had no idea about this terrifying game; only by sticking close to the seasoned players could newcomers have a chance at survival.

The reason was simple. Regardless of how brave or timid a newcomer was, during the initial phase when there’s no way to attack ghosts, being targeted by a ghost meant certain death.

Only by sticking closely to the seasoned players who could handle ghosts, and relying on their protection without angering them, could newcomers survive the initial phase, then gain skills and enhanced physique, and only then have a real chance to live in the game.

You could say seasoned players were forcibly assigned by the game system to act as babysitters and guides for newcomers. Since they were forcibly assigned, of course, they were unhappy, which led to seasoned players slacking off or sabotaging newcomers out of frustration.

Li Meng thought the newcomers who encountered her and Brother Junyu were the luckiest because guides as good and helpful as them were as rare as hen’s teeth.

But every time newcomers excluded them, huddling together and ignoring commands, Li Meng felt especially frustrated and angry. She used to not understand why some seasoned players would rather play a game for nothing or even get fined than sabotage newcomers.

Only after becoming a babysitter herself did Li Meng realize how irritating it was when newcomers self-sabotaged, being disobedient or refusing to accept reality. Several times she was so fed up that she wanted to sabotage these newcomers herself.

Although good performance by newcomers could earn additional rewards, those who received this reward were extremely rare because newcomers were too reckless, often burdening even seasoned players until half-dead.

Therefore, seasoned players almost never wanted to take babysitter tasks, and if there was a way to avoid them, none of them would come.

Zhong Junyu was kind-hearted. Although guiding newcomers also bothered him, his way of guiding them was to silently lead them through the game. If newcomers sabotaged themselves, he wouldn’t care; if they followed instructions, he would do his best to ensure they passed.

As for Wei Zhixin and Mo Yuan, Bai Xinrong, Jiang Hongxin, who huddled together, only focusing on guarding against him and treating him as a villain looking to sabotage them, Zhong Junyu’s approach was to lead the way independently. If the newcomers sabotaged themselves, he wouldn’t care; if they couldn’t keep up, he wouldn’t care either.

Zhong Junyu was kind-hearted and didn’t sabotage newcomers, but after staying in this twisted game world for so long, his temper wasn’t as good as Li Meng thought. He frequently watched newcomers miss their chances and die in front of him, but he acted as if he didn’t see them.

Watching the four newcomers now, almost wanting to strip off their clothes from the heat, Zhong Junyu couldn’t help but frown and said to Li Meng beside him, ”Although the weather is hot now, it’s somewhat excessive.”

Li Meng was stunned for a moment before reacting; she and Zhong Junyu had heat-resistant physiques, so they didn’t feel the temperature was very unbearable. After all, it wasn’t as extreme as the cold before, but upon closer inspection, this temperature was indeed overly hot.

Li Meng couldn’t help but frown, ”Could it be another ghost, just now it was a cold ghost. The cold ghost was captured, and now it’s a heat ghost. I know cold ghosts probably died in extremely cold places to be filled with chill, but would a heat ghost have died in an oven? I’ve never seen one.”

Zhong Junyu shook his head, ”It’s not any heat ghost. I don’t feel any ghost qi around here. It should just be the weather this hot.”

As everyone was feeling exhausted from the heat, suddenly a cool breeze blew in from the doorway, and the sweltering temperature in the room dropped almost instantly, becoming pleasantly cool.

Everyone in the room couldn’t help but simultaneously cast their eyes on the doorway, and then everyone, including seasoned players Li Meng and Zhong Junyu, was stunned with wide eyes, because after the door opened, they saw Lan Shuangshuang, who had just gone out, holding a thin-looking string tied around the waist of a floating, translucent female ghost, walking in from the doorway as if holding a balloon.

The refreshing coolness was emanating from the female ghost. The female ghost had a look of profound resignation hovering in the air, being dragged and drifting by Lan Shuangshuang while controlled to emit pleasant coolness. If disobedient, the female ghost shivered, unwillingly recalling the process of being violently tormented by Lan Shuangshuang in the cold storage.

Seeing Lan Shuangshuang, Li Meng was the first to go up to her, ”You’re really amazing, you captured the ghost so quickly! By the way, is this the female ghost that was cooling us down and trying to freeze us to death before?”

Lan Shuangshuang nodded, then handed the string of the balloon-like female ghost to Li Meng, saying calmly, ”You hold this, rest assured with this string here, she can’t harm you nor run away.”

Li Meng was somewhat excited, as she took the ghost balloon from Lan Shuangshuang’s hand, happily tugging the ghost around the room. The room immediately became comprehensively cool, more pleasant than the air conditioning.

The female ghost floated with dead eyes in the air, helplessly being dragged by Li Meng around the room, while reluctantly emitting cold air. She had roamed the hotel for so long, scaring and freezing countless people to death, always enjoying herself. Who knew suddenly a violent female demon would come, find her, and give her a thrashing.

The female ghost initially wanted to resist, but ended up suffering another beating, repeatedly occurring many times until she got scared of being beaten, submissively becoming tethered like a balloon and functioning as a mobile cooling unit, finally free from beatings. Being a ghost for so many years, this was her first time feeling how challenging it was to live as a ghost.

The hot and cold problem was resolved, but now came the issue of food. Although Ghost Hotel had water and electricity, it didn’t have food. After all, having water and electricity was already a significant loophole, having food wouldn’t make sense.

Fortunately, Zhong Junyu was a seasoned player and a rather wealthy one, able to afford the expense to exchange for portable space and thus had food reserves. He directly took out some steaming hot pies, distributing two pies to everyone along with two bottles of branded mineral water never seen before.

The pies were large, face-sized, usually enough to fill a man up with one, women might not even finish it. Everyone had been in the game for quite a while without food or drink, but previously due to tension and fear, no one cared about feeling hunger. Now, with Lan Shuangshuang around who could use ghosts like air conditioning, everyone wasn’t as tense, instead, they started to feel hungry.