Weird Game: My Talent is a Bit Strong

The kitchen of the ghost restaurant can trigger career quests for chefs, cleaners, and butchers.

After completing a job quest once, you have to wait three days before the second one can be triggered.

On the fourth night after returning from the dungeon, Fan Chen completed the kitchen job quest for the second time.

Temporary workers do not have job ranks, but they can improve their skill proficiency through job tasks.

Both the Eye of the Spirit and the Basic Cooking Skill have been upgraded to level 3.

Although these two skills are auxiliary, they are also very useful to Fan Chen.

Needless to say, the Eye of the Spirit can help Fan Chen discover hidden clues in every dungeon.

As for culinary skills...

Fan Chen: Being able to eat a bowl of steaming hot fried rice in a haunted house is a kind of enjoyment, isn't it?

His Butcher skill, which requires killing targets with malevolent energy, did not improve his proficiency.

But after completing the Butcher job for the second time, he finally mastered the new Butcher skills.

Skill: Bone Cleaver

Rating: 1

Note: A powerful, concentrated strike has greater destructive force but also consumes more stamina. Defeating a target wielding malevolent energy will increase skill proficiency!

After mastering the new skill, Fan Chen immediately put it to the test.

Using the [Bone Cleave] skill consumes 50 stamina points each time.

[Opening the Gut] is more like an area-of-effect attack skill, which can unleash a blood-red crescent moon to attack several ghosts.

The [Bone Cleaver] can only attack a single target, but it is more powerful.

Fan Chen activated his skill and cleaved the wooden block-shaped chopping board in front of him into pieces.

The tableware in the kitchen is all imbued with strange and eerie power.

It can withstand being cut open several times in a row and emerge unharmed.

But if you chop the bone once, it will turn into dust!

现在范辰的临时工职业，所掌握的技能为：斩骨（lv1）、开膛（lv3）、禁行（lv1）、警戒（lv1）、探灵之眼（lv3）、初级厨艺（lv3）

After completing the task, Ghost Chef A-Lian walked up to Fan Chen with a blank expression.

"Thank you for completing the work. Here is your payment."

Complete your job tasks and you'll get paid!

After receiving the ghost money, Fan Chen was taken aback: "Wasn't it three hundred last time? Why is it only two hundred?"

"Compensate for the damage to the cutting board," A-Lian said stiffly, pointing to the cutting board that Fan Chen had shattered into pieces.

Okay... Fan Chen put the money away.

Just as he was about to leave, Yi Jianlian suddenly said, "You have a real talent for being a butcher. If you want to improve your skills, I'll take you somewhere later."

Huh? Fan Chen looked at Yi Jianlian's ashen face in surprise.

"Where?"

"Slaughterhouse".

[Reminder: You have received an invitation to the dungeon, Slaughterhouse.]

Note: This is a single-player instance; the minimum player level requirement is 10. You can complete the Butcher class quest within it.

Fan Chen was pleasantly surprised and glanced at Yi Jianlian in astonishment.

Yi Jianlian actually made him trigger the solo instance!

Moreover, it's quite obvious that this is a solo dungeon exclusive to the Butcher class!

Some professions can trigger single-player class dungeons after meeting certain conditions.

Li Qian's Ghost Police profession was triggered once when she reached level 5.

"Entering this type of single-player dungeon allows you to improve your skill proficiency more quickly and learn more new skills."

"Level 10! I'll meet the requirement after the next dungeon run!"

"Maybe I can trigger the Slaughterhouse instance again through Yi Jianlian in the future?"

It seems there's no need to worry about further upgrades to the Butcher's skills.

Fan Chen left the kitchen with a happy smile.

He didn't log off immediately. He sat down in the lobby and asked the waiter, Ah Li, for a cup of hot water.

Having set the online time in advance, he quickly contacted An Ran to inquire about her current situation.

This mature and sophisticated psychologist is about to open her new clinic and is still familiarizing herself with the power to control the bandaged female ghost.

So far, we haven't encountered any problems.

Then Fan Chen contacted Zhou Muchen.

Because his Spirit level is lower than Fan Chen's, Zhou Muchen experiences dungeons more frequently; he just went through one yesterday.

Once the call was connected, Zhou Muchen couldn't wait to recount his experience.

His new experience is called: The Crying of the Old House.

Players will be sent to an abandoned old house where a tragic event once took place.

Decades ago, the young master of a wealthy family living here died of illness.

The master believed the words of a Taoist priest and, in order to ensure his son's peace after death, prepared to arrange a ghost marriage for him.

However, they have yet to find a deceased girl whose birth chart matches their own.

Coincidentally, the Taoist priest calculated that the daughter of a nearby farmer was a good match for him.

So the master and the Taoist priest conspired to trick a peasant girl into marrying into their family.

On their wedding night, they cruelly nailed the girl's soul into a coffin and buried her with their deceased son.

Unexpectedly, this turned the girl into a vengeful ghost bride.

In the end, the entire family of dozens of people died a violent death, their souls unable to find peace, emitting mournful cries every day.

The ghost bride will also appear in the old house, attacking players with resentment.

Once players enter the instance, they need to find clues on their own to learn the story behind it.

Zhou Muchen was able to recount this information in detail because...

Zhou Muchen: "I've slept with the ghost bride."

Compared to his initial rejection, Zhou Muchen has now accepted his innate abilities.

Moreover, some of the female ghosts in the dungeon are hideous and ugly, while others are quite beautiful.

The ghost bride's outstanding appearance gave Zhou Muchen a very stunning feeling.

"It's a pity I couldn't clear the level successfully, and I'm afraid I'll never see it again." Zhou Muchen was still reluctant to part with it.

He learned from Fan Chen that after a perfect completion of the dungeon, the dungeon buildings, including the ghosts, would appear in the player's personal space.

Although Zhou Muchen successfully won over the ghost bride and learned the story behind the dungeon.

However, I failed to trigger the hidden quest and did not achieve a perfect completion.

"You might encounter it again in some dungeon later," Fan Chen said with a smile, trying to comfort Zhou Muchen.

Having experienced the "Old House Crying" instance and with the help of the Ghost Bride, Zhou Muchen gained a considerable amount of spiritual energy experience.

He successfully advanced two more levels and is now level 8.

Although his improvement speed was not as fast as Fan Chen's, lower-level players enter dungeons more frequently, so he was still able to gradually catch up with Fan Chen.

The day for Fan Chen to enter the instance arrived quickly.

In the afternoon, Li Qian came to visit him in prison.

After entering the cell, he happily pulled out a USB drive.

"Come and see, I got you some great stuff!"

She eagerly turned on her computer and inserted the USB drive.

Good stuff... Could it be some newly released horror movie?

Fan Chen approached the computer with little anticipation, but his expression brightened up.

"This is an introduction to some ghostly creatures with the title of evil gods in this bizarre world."

Li Qian said smugly, "This is all information that can only be obtained by spending ghost money."

"You bought it for me?" Fan Chen asked in surprise, pulling up a chair and sitting down in front of the computer.

"Your new dungeon involves cultists, so learning about these evil gods and demons beforehand will definitely be helpful," Li Qian said with a sweet smile.

"How much did it cost?" Fan Chen asked, wanting to replenish Li Qian's funds, since he didn't need any ghost money for the time being.

A normal player can only get a few hundred ghost money as a reward for a single dungeon run.

Fan Chen's rewards are doubled, and he can also earn some extra money by washing dishes and cooking at his own ghost restaurant.

"It didn't cost much, it's just a small token of my appreciation. Giving me money would mean we're not friends anymore," Li Qian quickly refused.

She still remembered Fang Chao framing Fan Chen, so she wanted to find an opportunity to help Fan Chen.

Before Fan Chen could speak again, she continued, "By the way, there's a player who's been sentenced to death who will also enter the Misty Camp instance. You need to be careful."

As his Spirit Rank increases, Fan Chen will encounter other death row inmate players more and more often.

Because new, high-difficulty dungeons will appear less and less frequently.

The death row inmate player mentioned by Li Qian suffers from serious psychological problems and was a serial killer.

Like Fan Chen, after being sentenced to death, he wanted to reduce his sentence by entering a bizarre world.

In the bizarre world, he didn't perform like Fan Chen, nor did he ever achieve a perfect victory.

But he survived several times in a row.

However, because his crimes were too serious and the conditions for commutation of his sentence were very strict, he was still unable to escape the death penalty.

"This person is a bit strange. He seems to have a talent for killing and will uncontrollably attack other players."

Li Qian solemnly confessed.

She knew that although Fan Chen was a death row inmate, his case was very problematic and he was very likely framed.

This is also an important reason why she is willing to get closer to Fan Chen.

"What's his name?" Fan Chen asked.

"Mo Xiaohua," Li Qian told Fan Chen, a name he had never expected.

Fan Chen: A serial killer with a name like that must be extraordinary...

After introducing the death row inmate player to Fan Chen, Li Qian took her leave.

Before leaving, she smiled sweetly and said to Fan Chen, "I'll come visit you in prison again tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow." Fan Chen accepted her blessing.

Before 10 p.m., after carefully reviewing the materials brought by Li Qian, Fan Chen entered the eerie world.

You are about to enter the instance: Misty Camp!

Grade: E

Objective: Survive for 5 hours.

Synopsis: This is a resort camp nestled deep in the forest, shrouded in mist. Legend has it that many years ago, a group of cultists held a sacrificial ceremony here in an attempt to summon an evil god…