I deliver food in a bizarre world

In the dead of night, all was quiet.

The campfire at the campsite had long since died out, leaving only a few dark red embers flickering in the thick, impenetrable darkness.

Four tents lay quietly scattered on the lakeside open space, like giant beetles, silently lying dormant and motionless.

Chen Mo was a light sleeper. The enhanced perception provided by the system was constantly in operation, and he remained vigilant even in the wild.

Suddenly, his phone vibrated violently, jolting him awake from his shock!

The moment I opened my eyes, a pale blue system panel popped up uncontrollably, its edges flashing with a blinding red light.

[WARNING! High concentration of anomalous spatial force field detected!]

[The concentration of spiritual energy in the environment has increased dramatically!]

[Spatial coordinate anchoring failed!]

[Warning: You have been drawn into a special secret realm.]

Chen Mo sat up abruptly and woke up Chen Xing next to him.

"Little Star, wake up!"

He flung open the tent flap and dashed out.

"What's wrong?" Chen Xing opened his eyes groggily, and upon seeing the scene outside, he instantly woke up.

"Where...where is this?"

"have no idea!"

Outside was not the lakeside and pine forest where they had been during the day, but a desolate area, completely swallowed by a thick, grayish-white fog.

The moonlight was completely blocked, but a faint glow still emanated from the area, allowing one to see the surrounding environment, though visibility was less than five meters.

"Everyone, get up quickly!" Chen Mo shouted in a low voice, which sounded muffled in the thick fog.

Chen Mo quickly looked around. Their car was still there, but the lake next to the campsite and the surrounding trees had all disappeared. Under his feet was dry, hardened, and cracked soil. The whole world was a depressing gray-white color.

Almost simultaneously, commotion was also heard from several tents nearby.

"What happened?" Li Haojie's voice was still dazed from just waking up.

He crawled out of the tent, saw the scene outside, and froze, as if petrified.

"Holy crap! What's going on? Who moved our tent overnight?"

"It's not that we're moving, it's that the environment has changed." Lin Xiao was the second to come out, and immediately went into a state of alert.

He glanced around, his right hand instinctively reaching for the dagger at his waist, gripping it in a reverse grip.

The others also came out one after another, their faces all showing shock and bewilderment.

"What kind of place is this?"

"I don't know, the space here has been changed, this isn't Qinglong Lake." Chen Mo shook his head.

"Brother, there's a village in the distance!" Chen Xing popped out of the tent and pointed in a direction in shock.

Chen Mo's gaze sharpened as he activated his spiritual eyes and looked at the location Chen Xing had pointed to.

The fog gradually thinned under his spiritual eyes, but did not dissipate. He could only see the outline of a village a hundred meters away. Beyond that, he could see nothing at all.

There's actually a village in this godforsaken place?

He looked at Chen Xing, his gaze very serious: "I couldn't see the details clearly. What did you see?"

"A... paper village..." Chen Xing's face was a little pale. "The buildings seem to be made of paper..."

"Made of paper?" Everyone was astonished.

"Hmm..." Chen Xing had lived in his hometown for a long time when he was a child, so he shouldn't be mistaken. Thinking of this, Chen Mo's heart tightened.

He thought of something else, the large-scale trial mission Qi had mentioned earlier—"Paper Doll Village"!

Could this be it...?

Lin Xiao immediately spoke up: "Check yourselves and equipment. Prepare food and drink, and get your weapons ready. We won't have any external supplies for the next three days!"

"Huh? My phone has a signal!" Zhou Mingyu held up his phone, the screen lit up.

"Yes, the network connection is working, and I can browse the internet normally," Jiang Mingyang said.

Zhou Mingyu opened the map, checked it for a moment, and shook his head, saying, "But the positioning function is completely malfunctioning. It's like we're no longer in the Great Xia Kingdom; the map is unusable..."

"I'll try to see if I can get out," Lin Xiao suggested, pointing in the direction where the lake should have been.

"I'll take a few steps in this direction."

Chen Mo said, "Be careful, retreat immediately if anything goes wrong."

"it is good."

Everyone looked over, only to see him cautiously walk forward less than ten meters before his figure began to rapidly blur in the thick fog.

"Brother Xiao, how's it going?" Li Haojie called out.

Lin Xiao's voice came from the fog, tinged with seriousness: "No, it feels like there's a wall ahead, we can't get through! And the fog is too thick, we won't be able to see you if we go any further."

Chen Xing then spoke up: "I'll try the other side."

Before Chen Mo could object, he crouched down and moved quickly in the opposite direction from the village.

Chen Xing moved very nimbly, his footsteps landing very lightly, making almost no sound.

But soon he retreated, his expression not looking good.

"Same here. After walking about seven or eight meters, it felt like I hit an invisible rubber wall and bounced back. If I tried to force my way through, the resistance would be too great... Even if I could go any further, I probably wouldn't even be able to see the way back."

He looked at Chen Mo: "It seems we're... trapped in this area."

Chen Mo waved to Chen Xing, and the two walked to the side and dialed Chen Jingming's number.

The phone rang for a long time before it was answered.

"Dad, we're in trouble." Chen Mo briefly described the surrounding environment, the thick fog, and the spatial blockade.

There was a few seconds of silence on the other end of the phone before Chen Jingming's voice came through, carrying an unusual seriousness: "You may... have entered a secret realm."

"A secret realm?" Chen Mo recalled the information given by the contract; this place seemed to be a special secret realm.

"What is a secret realm?"

"You can think of it as a different dimension with special rules born from highly condensed yin energy. These dimensions are independent of the real world, and once opened, the chance of survival is extremely slim..."

An independent space? Chen Mo frowned deeply.

"Its origin is unknown, its location is random, and its internal rules are very strange."

"There are scattered records in the files of the Security Bureau and the Public Opinion Research Office, but very few people have been able to enter voluntarily and return safely."

Chen Jingming spoke very quickly: "Describe to me the characteristics of the village you see."

Chen Mo squinted, trying to see through the thick fog, but he still couldn't see clearly. He could only look at Chen Xing and ask a question.

"They're all white, so you can't see the details, but they feel like the thing Grandpa made, only a larger version... a one-to-one replica..."

"Xiaoxing said it's a very old village, like it's made of paper," Chen Mo repeated.

"...White? Did you see a lot of windows that looked like they were covered in paper?" Chen Jingming's voice suddenly tightened.

Chen Xing nodded: "You can vaguely see the windows of those low buildings; they really look like sheets of paper, unlike the texture of glass."

Chen Mo immediately replied, "Yes, the windows are made of paper."

A sigh came from Chen Jingming on the other end of the phone.

"If it really is there... then you've been drawn into the Paper Doll Village's secret realm..."

"This was a documented but long-lost high-risk secret location... How did you end up in there?!"

Paper Doll Village?

Just then, Chen Mo's phone vibrated again, and a blurred system panel appeared in front of him, forcibly displaying new information.

The blood-red text carried an immense sense of oppression.