I deliver food in a bizarre world

His account hadn't been logged in for a while, and as soon as he entered the game interface, he saw the message about returning veteran players, as well as the settlement rewards from the previous season.

"I haven't played it since the update..." Zhou Mingyu said with some emotion.

"Your ranking is pretty good!" Chen Mo, with his sharp eyes, immediately noticed the rewards he had received on the main interface.

Everyone: "..."

Is this the key point?

Fortunately, the new version doesn't require completing any main quests to unlock the map; instead, it updates the existing version. Otherwise, there would be a whole lot of steps to complete.

He guided his character along the route to the dungeon entrance, where the eerie atmosphere of the ancient castle permeated the screen.

As one of the newly opened dungeons, this place is filled with many players waiting to team up.

Very few people have cleared the dungeon; even the top-tier teams in the Chinese server are still vying for the remaining Hall of Fame spots.

Just then, Li Wenjing suddenly pointed to a motionless NPC in the corner of the screen and whispered, "Look at that NPC!"

Everyone turned to look, and a chill ran down their spines.

It was a guard NPC wearing tattered armor and holding a broken sword, whose name was none other than "Lost Zhao Lei"!

Not only that name, Su Yifan immediately pointed out three other NPCs scattered near the dungeon entrance, who were also standing still!

Their names are the NPCs "Lost Yu Jun", "Lost Cao Leyang", and "Lost Lü Cheng"!

This corresponds exactly to the victims of the other three missing persons cases!

Su Yifan felt a chill run down his spine: "This...why? Why didn't the others notice?"

"Brother Xiao, go find the network administrator and turn on another computer!" Chen Mo immediately ordered.

"it is good."

All five fell silent. The names of people who had disappeared in the real world had become NPCs at the entrance to a dungeon in the game!

Soon, Lin Xiao returned and turned on a computer next to him.

On this computer, Chen Mo logged into his account, only to find that there were no four NPCs outside the instance at all!

"What... what's going on?" Everyone was in an uproar.

Chen Mo stared intently at machine number 23. On the screen, the four NPCs named "Lost Ones" remained standing there, motionless.

In his spiritual vision, the four NPCs were actually surrounded by extremely faint spiritual fluctuations!

Moreover, that fluctuation carried an emotion of fear!

"The problem must be with this computer, in this instance," Chen Mo said coldly. "Or rather, with the boss in this instance."

He recalled the information he had previously investigated.

In the Netherworld Castle dungeon of "Fantasy of the Mysterious Realm," the final boss is a monster known as the "Grievance Aggregator," which, according to the game's setting, is formed from the grievances of countless unjustly deceased people on the Mysterious Realm continent.

"I understand!" Su Yifan clapped his hands suddenly. "It's not that the game has a problem, it's that this BOSS in the game... it may have mutated for some reason!"

Li Wenjing asked in confusion, "You mean, its resentment, through the internet and data streams, has formed a special entity?"

Su Yifan nodded: "Yes, this is similar to a trap. Once you step on it, you'll be trapped. Those players who are in a specific place at a specific time and whose level of immersion reaches a certain level..."

Zhou Mingyu explained, "It may not be these conditions, but they will definitely be very demanding. We need to figure out exactly what they are, because there are too many players entering the Netherworld Castle every day. If there are only these four players, it means that there must be some commonality among them to cause this situation."

Su Yifan nodded repeatedly: "That's right, this is just my hypothesis. It could be some other condition... Once these conditions are met, they will be dragged into the game world by the BOSS's resentment, trapped in the game, and transformed into these lost NPCs! In reality, they will be missing because their bodies are in the game!"

Chen Mo added, "And these NPCs can only be seen on their missing computers..."

He was internally ranting and raving.

What on earth is this Lolo's Adventure?!

Lin Xiao nodded: "Yifan and the boss are right. We need to move on to the next step as soon as possible. We don't know how long they can maintain this state. Yu Jun, who went missing first, has been missing for more than a month. We need to check on his condition first."

"Mingyu, find the information and disappearance locations of those missing students, send a copy to Sister Jing, and then we'll go over and check them to confirm. Sister Jing, in the meantime, compare the information and see if you can find any commonalities between them."

"Okay!" X5.

An hour later, in the conference room on the basement floor of Moxing Studio.

"Based on the analysis of the results, only the machine where they went missing could see the four NPCs."

"This explains why they were missing for so long, yet no one else found them outside the instance map." Chen Mo tapped the blackboard, with five people sitting below.

"According to Mingyu's investigation, they all experienced strong negative emotions before they disappeared. A detailed investigation revealed what unhappy things they had encountered beforehand."

"One lost something very important, two were scolded by their parents, and one had a conflict with a friend."

"Furthermore, based on the information, Sister Jing analyzed their birth charts and found that they were all purely Yin..."

Li Haojie raised his hand: "What exactly does 'pure Yin in Bazi' mean? Zhao Guilan seems to have this constitution."

Chen Mo said, "Let me explain. The Eight Characters indicate the four times of birth: year, month, day, and hour, and are counted using the Earthly Branches."

"Pure Yin means that the year, month, day, and hour are all Yin Heavenly Stems and Yin Earthly Branches. As for how to classify them... the method of judgment is also very simple: odd numbers are Yang, and even numbers are Yin..."

"We cannot know the exact date of birth because we have not been in contact with the family, but the date is sufficient to determine the exact time of birth."

"In addition to negative emotions and birth charts, Mingyu also obtained data from inside the game and found that they all entered the Netherworld Castle at night, exactly at midnight, and all of them entered the single-player mode. Perhaps this is also a very crucial factor."

The five people listened attentively with solemn expressions.

"You've said too little," Xiao Jing suddenly said in my mind.

Chen Mo was taken aback: "Huh?"

"What was that smooth thing they were facing before they disappeared called again?"

"Computer screen?"

"Yes, the computer screen! The one you were looking at earlier had a very smooth surface, without a speck of dirt. Generally speaking, the dirtier a mirror is, the more difficult it is to become a passageway. I am a mirror spirit myself, so I am quite sensitive to this kind of thing; you might want to take a look."

Upon hearing this, Chen Mo stroked his chin and entered a state of deep thought.

The five people looked at each other in bewilderment.

We were talking perfectly fine, so why did the boss suddenly freeze up and start spacing out?